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How To Use The Repertory 

with V 

A Practical Analysis of 
Forty Homeopathic Remedies 

BY 
GLEN IRVING BIDWELL, M. D., 

Member American Institute of Homoeopathy ; New York State 

Homoeopathic Society; The Society of Homoeopathicians; 

Monroe County Homoeopathic Society; etc. 



PHILADELPHIA 

BOERICKE & TAFEL 

1915 






Copyrighted by 

BOERICKE & TAFEL 

1915 



OCT -7 1915 






To much of the material, in this little book, I am indebted to 
Organon and Chronic Diseases of Hahnemann. To the 
writings and books of Dr. James Tyler Kent. To the 
writings of Doctors A. H. Grimmer, Julia Loos, 
Margaret Tyler and R. G. Miller, To these 
physicians as well as all others who are 
trying to practice our art and to all 
those who are seeking to under- 
stand our principles this 
book is dedicated. 



INTRODUCTION 



The degree of vitality Homoeopathy enjoys 
in any given period will always be indexed by 
the methods of its disciples and exponents, not 
merely by the soundness of their teaching, but 
especially by the thoroughness and accuracy of 
their practice. I know of no better gauge of 
this vitality than the interest shown in repertory 
work, for the repertory is our chief instrument 
of precision. True, some men do some good 
work without the repertory, but they also do 
poor work, more than they would do with it. 
A self-made artisan may be a very useful man 
although ignorant of the theory and most ad- 
vanced methods obtaining in his line of work, 
but he can never measure up to the man whom 
education and thoroughness of method has made 
an expert. No such thing as infallibility in pre- 
scribing will ever be attained, but he who uses his 
repertory faithfully and intelHgently — and no 
one can do that without equal faithfulness and 
intelligence in his study of the Materia Medica — 
will inevitably reap his reward, in results and in 
that peace of mind that comes only with an ap- 
proving conscience. It is encouraging, there- 



INTRODUCTION. 5 

fore, to realize that there are some who desire 
to follow the better way, — that there is some 
demand for such work's as this of Dr. BidwelFs, 
excellently qualified as it is to initiate into ef- 
fective use of repertory methods ; it seems to 
show that beneath the ashes and debris heaped 
up by ultra-scientific but essentially chaotic 
Modern Medicine, burn here and there the em- 
bers of a love for therapeutic Truth, which are 
destined to burst forth at last into a steady, 
spreading flame that shall bring much good to 
the children of men. 

James Tyler Kent. 



PREFACE 



The call from the members of our school for 
an index of the symptoms of our materia medica 
has been insistent ever since the first edition of 
the Materia Medica Pura. This call has re- 
sulted in the publishing of several repertories, 
from the earliest ones, which covered the few 
remedies then proven to the last edition of Kent, 
which is an index to all the remedies proven 
homoeopathically or confirmed clinically to the 
present time. 

When members of our school turn to this vast 
work for assistance they are confronted with a 
maze of material, which, to the uninitiated, is 
more confusing than the materia medica. 

It is to help the members of our school who 
are desirous of mastering and using the reper- 
tory that this little work is presented. The 
repertory, the arrangement and use of which I 
try to make clear and from which the examples 
are given, is that of Kent (Second Edition), as 
this is the only unabridged work we have and 
the one that is most simple and satisfying to use. 
The general plan of the repertory work here 
laid down can be used equally well with any 



PREFACE. 7 

other repertory, the only change needed being 
that you must master the arrangement of your 
favorite work. Boenninghausen's Therapeutic 
Pocket Book, a copy of which is in the library 
of nearly every homoeopath, may be used by this 
plan, although it will be difficult from the fact 
of its briefness and the fact that the modalities 
of the part and of the generals are mixed to- 
gether, to work your case to one remedy; but, 
rather, will you have to turn to your materia 
medica to differentiate between the last three or 
more remedies of your analysis. 

In using Allen's Slip Repertory care must be 
taken not to give too high a standing to the 
nosodes or your final results will be apt to point 
to Psorinum or Tuberculinum. 

The repertory was never made or intended to 
take the place of the materia medica; I cannot 
lay too great stress on the fact that it must 
never replace our constant study and use of the 
pathogenesis of our remedies, it should be used 
as an index to lighten the task of memory in 
storing the vast symptomatology of our rem- 
edies. 

After the repertory has led us to the remedy 
which we believe covers our symptom picture, 
the selection of this remedy should be confirmed 



8 PREFACE. 

by reading its pathogenesis as given in one of 
our complete materia medicas. This not only 
acts as proof of the results obtained in the solv- 
ing of our problems, but also acts as a check on 
hurried careless work and at the same time con- 
tinually increases our knowledge of materia 
medica. 

The use of the repertory is one of the higher 
branches of our art and before it can be mas- 
tered the laws governing the homoeopathic treat- 
ment and cure of diseases, as given to us in the 
Organon and the Chronic Diseases, must be 
learned. Philosophy is rather like trying to ex- 
plain a complicated problem of geometry to one 
who cannot use arithmetic, to try to teach the 
use of the repertory to one who does not com- 
prehend Homoeopathic Philosophy. 

It is for this reason that I have begun this 
volume with a brief review of the Organon, as 
it applies to the repertory work, in the hope that 
this review will stimulate the desire for further 
and continued study of this first and greatest 
text-book of Homoeopathy. I firmly believe that 
if Homoeopathy is to survive in this age of 
therapeutic nihilism, when so many bastard prac- 
tices are being fostered as Homoeopathic, its 
survival will come from a comprehensive study 



PREFACE. 9 

of the Organon, Constantine Hering said : "If 
our school ever gives up the strict inductive 
method of Hahnemann we are lost and deserve 
only to be mentioned as a caricature in the his- 
tory of medicine." 

Homoeopathy is from the beginning to the 
end an art of individualization. We have to in- 
dividualize remedies and patients. However 
convenient it may seem to be, and however 
greatly it appeals to us, to think of our remedies 
in connection with diseases in the treatment of 
which they may be frequently called for, it must 
always be kept in mind that to allow our concep- 
tion of our remedies to be limited by nosological 
terms will hinder us from utilizing our rem- 
edies to the fullest extent. To get the greatest 
good from the materia medica we must recog- 
nize our remedies as powerful curative agents 
ready to serve us in any case no matter what the 
name of the disease may be or what the labora- 
tory findings may designate. 

The analysis of forty remedies which is in- 
cluded in this work is in no way meant to re- 
place your materia medica, but rather to help 
you to so systematize these remedies in your 
memory that they may be in shape to be readily 
called forth when occasion demands and that it 



lO PREFACE. 

may stimulate a desire to so study materia 
medica that in each of your cases the one remedy 
may be found which will serve you well, fur- 
nishing an effectual check upon poly-pharmacy 
and alternation of remedies. 

It is not alone what the author has to offer to 
a reader that tells, it is what the reader can get 
out of the author, and in the last resort every 
homoeopath must be his own materia medica 
maker. I think that you will be amply repaid 
for the time given to a careful study of this 
analysis, not only for the usable knowledge of 
the remedies that you will have acquired, but 
also, — and, perhaps, of the greatest importance, 
— ^the help it will be to you in enlarging and 
compiling your own materia medica. 

I wish to take this opportunity of thanking 
Dr. G. G. Starkey, of Chicago, for the great as- 
sistance given me in revising and editing the 
proof of this work. 

Glen I. Bidwell, M. D. 

809 South Ave., 

Rochester, New York. 



I 



How to Use the Repertory 

Part I. 

There are three things which merit the most 
careful consideration of the homoeopathic practi- 
tioner—the taking of the case, the selection of 
the remedy and the administration of the rem- 
edy. The relations of these three steps are so 
closely intermingled, the one with the other, and 
the results of the one so dependent upon the care 
and accuracy with which the preceding steps 
have been taken, that I have presumed to call 
them the "Homoeopath's Trinity/' 

Taking the Case. 

Let us consider a moment the first division — 
that of taking the case. If we hope to attain 
even the smallest degree of success in the cura- 
tive action of our remedies we must observe this 
first step closely and follow the instructions in 
the Organon (Sees. 83-104) carefully. If our 
case is indifferently taken or the wrong symptoms 
recorded we surely cannot proceed with the 
second step. No matter what process we take to 
arrive at the remedy, unless we have our case 
well taken we shall only have failure for our 



12 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

pains. Let us consider this most important step. 
What does it mean to take the case? I hear 
many answers to this : that everyone knows how 
to take the case, as it is simply a matter of re- 
cording the symptoms found in your patient. 
True, but what symptoms are you to look for 
and which are you to record? I will say 
with the utmost belief that less than one man 
in a hundred practicing Homoeopathy to-day 
knows how to take a case properly. You may 
think that this is a pretty strong statement, but 
fiom my experience I think if any error has been 
made it is that I have placed the number too 
high. Many times I have had cases sent to me 
for repertory analysis with page after page of 
symptoms found in this patient, and out of this 
vast collection not one upon which a prescription 
could be hung, not one to differentiate this case 
from hundreds of others suffering from the same 
disease. There is the rub. There is the stum- 
bling block. They all make a diagnosis and many 
of the cases sent to me would make fine text- 
book descriptions of the disease, but it is not the 
disease we want to make a record of; it is the 
individualized diseased patient. No man can 
make a homoeopathic prescription from diag- 
nostic or pathognomonic symptoms. The whole 



THREE INJUNCTIONS. I3 

aim of the physician is to secure the language 
of nature. It is necessary to know sickness not 
from pathology, not from physical diagnosis, no 
matter how important these branches are, but by 
symptoms the language of nature. 

In studying homoeopathic philosophy as given 
in the Organon, the Chronic Diseases and Kent's 
Lectures we are struck by the fact that many of 
the main points are emphasized by arrangement 
of the ideas in groups of three, and it may not 
be out of place to review them briefly. 

Three Injunctions. 

Looking at the first two sections of the Or- 
ganon we find the three injunctions — to cure 
promptly, mildly and permanently. Thus Hahne- 
mann states the highest ideal of a cure which 
is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration 
of health or removal of disease in its whole 
extent in the shortest, most reliable and harm- 
less way. Let us consider what we mean by a 
cure. The physician who has not been trained 
in homoeopathic philosophy answers that a cure 
consists of the disappearance of the pathological 
state. Does it? We believe not. For instance, 
does the removal of haemorrhoids constitute a 
cure of the patient? If so, why do so large a 
percentage of operated cases return? Does the 
2 



14 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

removal of the carcinomatous breast cure the pa- 
tient? If so, why do they return so frequently? 
Does the removal of eruptions on the skin con- 
stitute a cure? If so, why are they followed by 
various internal disorders which local measures 
fail to relieve? No these are not cures. They 
are simply the removal of the visible symptom 
and one symptom does not make a picture of the 
diseased patient. We must go back of this mani- 
fest symptom to the totality of this patient's 
symptoms and take these into consideration when 
making our prescription, and restore to health 
by removing these symptoms; then the external 
manifestations will disappear. There should al- 
ways be an inward improvement when an ex- 
ternal' symptom has been made to disappear. If 
the removal of symptoms is not followed by 
restoration to health it cannot be called a cure. 
In Sec. 70 we find the following: ''All that a 
physician may regard as curable in diseases con- 
sists entirely in the complaints of the patient and 
the morbid changes of his health perceptible to 
the senses; that is to say, it consists entirely in 
the totality of symptoms through which the dis- 
ease expresses its demand for the appropriate 
remedy ; while, on the other hand, every fictitious 
or obscure internal cause and condition, or im- 



THREE DIRECTIONS OF CURE. I5 

aginary material, morbific matter are not objects 
of treatment." 

Three Directions of Cure. 

Another question that arises is: How can we 
demonstrate that we have cured and how may 
we know that our remedy is acting curatively? 
This leads us to consider the three directions of 
cure. We find that in order to produce a per- 
manent cure symptoms must disappear from 
above downward — from within outward, and in 
the reverse order of their coming. All homoeo- 
paths who understand the art know that in order 
for the cure to be permanent the symptoms must 
go away in these directions. It is these direc- 
tions that we must keep in mind when we treat 
an eruption on the skin, and see that the symp- 
toms do not leave the skin and go to the brain, 
for if such a course is taken we know a mistake 
has been made, and if something is not done to 
make the symptoms take a proper course and go 
from the brain (center) to the skin (circumfer- 
ence) we are going to have a death certificate to 
fill out. Then when we treat a case of endo- 
carditis, and after the administration of the rem- 
edy we observe a rheumatic swelling of the knee 
or ankle, and the patient will tell you, "This is 



l6 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

the same sickness I had when Dr. So-and-So 
treated me for rheumatism before this heart 
trouble came on/' you can be sure when this 
happens that you will make a cure, for the direc- 
tion the symptoms have taken is according to 
the law, the symptoms have left the internals 
and have gone to the external parts, and if we 
leave the prescription alone a cure will result. 

In Section 3 we have Hahnemann's statement 
of the THREE PRECAUTIONS, or thosc which I 
have called the 'Trinity/' He must perceive what 
is curable in disease; what is curative in medi- 
cine ; and the application of the last to the first. 
And I can do no better than to quote Section 
three of the Organon: "The physician should 
distinctly understand the following conditions : 
What is curable in diseases in general, and in 
each individual' case in particular; that is, the 
recognition of disease (indicato). He should 
clearly comprehend what is curative in drugs in 
general, and in each drug in particular; that is, 
he should possess a perfect knowledge of medici- 
nal powers. He should be governed by distinct 
reasons in order to insure recovery by adapting 
what is curative in medicines to what he has 
recognized as undoubtedly morbid in a patient; 
that is to say, he should adapt it so that a case is 



THREE DIRECTIONS OF CURE. I7 

met by a remedy well matched with regard to 
its kind of action (selection of the remedy, in- 
dicatum), its necessary preparation and quantity, 
and the proper time of its repetition. Finally, 
w^hen the physician knows in each case the ob- 
stacles in the way of recovery, and how to re- 
move them, he is prepared to act thoroughly, 
and to the purpose, as a true master of the art of 
healing/' 

Here Dr. Dudgeon's translation uses the word 
'''perceive/' which means understand. We may 
see a thing and not comprehend it; if we 
perceive a thing we must understand it. Here 
it is that our pathology and diagnosis will help 
us. We know when we perceive structural 
changes in tissues which have resulted in organic 
destruction that the remedy will not replace tis- 
sue so destroyed. In these cases the only thing 
we can do is to palliate the symptoms ; but how 
much more gently and surely we can do this with 
our remedy than can be done by opiates, etc. If 
there is any one thing that should convert a 
family to Homoeopathy it is to see the agonies 
of a relative or friend relieved so they will still 
retain their mental faculties until the last. Who 
of us that have obser^^ed Arsenicum remove the 
fear of death and the mental agonies of the last 



l8 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

hours that has not raised a silent prayer to our 
Maker for intrusting us with such a blessing for 
suffering humanity. 

We must understand what is curative in medi- 
cine. Hbw are we to do this? In Section 21 
we find: "It is possible only to recognize the 
power of drugs to produce distinct changes in 
the state of feeling of the human body, particu- 
larly the healthy human body, and to excite 
numerous definite morbid symptoms in and about 
the same, and it follows that if drugs act as 
curative remedies they exercise this curative 
power only by virtue of their faculty of altering 
bodily feelings through the production of 
peculiar symptoms. Consequently those morbid 
disturbances, called forth by drugs in the healthy 
body, must be accepted as the only possible reve- 
lation of their inherent curative power.'' In this 
age of isopathy and serum therapy many are be- 
ing led away by these will-o-the-wisps of allopathic 
teaching. One day we see a new serum or new 
bacterin or new vaccine; the next day some one 
comes along with something to remove the dan- 
gerous effects produced by their administration. 
These will go the way of all previous specifics 
and cure-alls advanced by the old school on ex- 
perimental laboratory findings. Why is it their 



THE THREE MIASMS. IQ 

remedies come and go with almost the rapidity 
of a June frost? Simply because they are not 
based on a law. Where can we find anything in 
medicine that has had the lasting powers of the 
remedies proven by Hahnemann more than a 
century ago? They are still being used for the 
same symptoms and with the same success as 
when first given the profession. Let the old 
school perceive what is curative in their medicine 
according to the methods of Hahnemann instead 
of laboratory experiments, and they will have 
something lasting and of value. 

The application of the remedy to the symp- 
toms will be taken up fully under the repertory 
analysis of the individualized symptom picture, 
later in the paper. 

The Three Miasms.* 

The three chronic miasms are the next of the 
ideas we will consider. In sections 78-80 we find 
mentioned the three chronic miasms of Hahne- 
mann. They are Psora, Syphilis and Sycosis. 
Here it is stated that if any of these three miasms 
is left to itself it will only become extinct with 
life itself. Surely with this statement no sane 
physician would deny the chronicity of any of 



*Study the theoretiral part of Hahnemann's Chronic 
Diseases. 



20 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

these miasms. It is in his Chronic Diseases that 
Hahnemann tells us more fully concerning these 
miasms. For eleven years he observed and 
studied with the tenacity, concentration and 
ability for which his German habits and great 
mind so well fitted him, before he brought forth 
the theories of the miasms. While there has 
been much written against and a great deal of 
ridicule cast upon his theory of the psoric miasm, 
those who have followed his teachings closely 
believe in them, and from the knowledge thus 
gained have been able to secure results in chronic 
work which cannot be matched by those who 
do not believe and who cast ridicule. Whether 
the psoric miasm has been the result of sup- 
pressed itch or not, and be that as it may, do not 
waste your time in trying to throw it into disre- 
pute, but when you have a case that will not 
react to the apparently indicated remedy, look 
v/ell through your case and see if you cannot 
discern one of the miasms. Ofttimes you will 
find traces and then the administration of the in- 
dicated anti-psoric will cause a reaction which 
will lead to a cure. 

In the dynamic, spirit-like, vital force, we find 
the THREE PARALLELS of Hahnemann. Here we^ 
again find that far-reaching, clear sightedness 



THE THREE PARALLELS. 21 

and concise expression of Hahnemann's logic. 
Where have we since the writing of the Organon 
found anything which expresses that condition 
or being which controls and holds in harmony 
our life forces. Many of our physiologists and 
embryologists have given us theories concerning 
this condition but does the phagocyte theory or 
the opsonic theory with their variations give us 
anything better than Hahnemann's description? 
In Section 1 1 we find : ''This vital force alone ani- 
mating the organism in the state of sickness and 
of health imparts the faculty of feeling, and con- 
trols the function of life." Section 12: ''Dis- 
eases are prbduced only by the morbidly dis- 
turbed vital force." 

When first trying to master Homoeopathy, 
after a perverted viewpoint gained in an old 
school college, this vital force was one of the 
hardest things for me to comprehend. In dis- 
cussions raised from my standpoint as a pathol- 
ogist and bacteriologist I would always chase my 
opponents to this stone wall, vital force, when 
they would nimbly hop over and intrench them- 
selves behind this barrier, and I could only hurl 
my arguments against this wall and never dis- 
lodge them. In the light of advanced findings 
of our bacteriological laboratories I am inclined 



22 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

to believe that some of us carry this a little too 
far. While all fair minded physicians will admit 
that the predispiosing cause of all diseases is the 
derangement of the vital force, I do not think 
we can deny that it has been proven beyond 
doubt that in the exciting cause of some diseases, 
at least, there is a bacteriological factor, and 
while we must admit that the ground must be 
made fallow by this deranged vital force in order 
for these minute vegetable organisms to produce 
their morbific effect, we must not pass over 
the fact that with this predisposing cause present 
the pathogenic bacteria are the exciting cause of 
many diseases. 

In Sections 9-22 we find the explanation of 
the three parallels of force. These are as fol- 
lows : (a) Plane of vital dynamis of organism; 
(b) Plane of disease cause ; (c) Plane of medi- 
cinal substance. 

In Section 83 Hahnemann gives us the three 
REQUIREMENTS or three quahfications necessary 
before we can properly examine a case. These 
are unbiased judgment and sound sense, atten- 
tive observation and fidelity in noting down the 
image of the disease. In the following para- 
graphs he further brings out these points by tell- 
ing us that we must see, hear and observe. We 



THE THREE REQUIREMENTS. 23 

must enter upon the work of taking our case with 
unbiased judgment and sound sense. This is the 
hardest requirement for all of us to follow, and 
one calling for [most] rigid self-scrutiny. How 
often it happens as we are listening to the symp- 
toms of a case the picture of a remedy comes to 
mind, and if we do not use sound sense we are 
biased in favor of this remedy, and we do not 
question further and bring out the whole picture 
of the diseased patient. Then, again, we may 
maintain unbiased judgment until the case has 
been fully taken and then lose our sound sense 
of reasoning by saying such and such a case was 
like this and a certain remedy cured, therefore, 
'T will give that remedy without further investi- 
gation." Then, again, in younger men comes 
the desire to produce results quickly. They want 
to make a reputation to give relief from the 
pain at once, and so they give something of an 
opiate to deaden the pain, or they give some ap- 
plication to relieve the itching, or to dry up an 
eruption, although their sound sense tells them 
that a cure can never be made in this manner. 
And so in many ways we need to resist tempta- 
tion and use sound sense and judgment freed 
from bias. 



24 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

LET THE PATIENT TALK. 

The next most important requirement is at- 
tentive observation. If we hope to arrive at the 
truth we must not only be attentive to what the 
patient tells us, and to what the nurse or family 
may impart, but we must observe closely the ap- 
pearance of the patient himself. Ofttimes the 
symptom which will lead us to the remedy will 
be one which we may get by observation. The 
way the patient lies, sits, walks, talks, conducts 
himself generally, the appearance of discharges, 
the col'or of the eyes, hair, tongue, skin, etc., all 
have their place and are of the greatest import- 
ance in our record. Upon your powers of ob- 
servation will depend not only the first image 
of your case but also your success in conducting 
the case after the first prescription has been 
made. 

Three Mistakes. 

The last group of three relating to the tak- 
ing of the case will be the three mistakes 
made in examining the case, interruption of pa- 
tient, asking direct questions and making an- 
swers conform to some remedy we may have in 
mind. A thing of the greatest importance in 
securing an image of a sickness is to preserve in 
the simplest form what the patient tells you. 



THREE MISTAKES. 2$ 

Let him tell it in his own language, and un- 
less! he disgresses too much from the subject do 
not interrupt, for by so doing you may lose 
a line of thought and not be able to get him 
back to it again. Then do not ask direct ques- 
tions. You must never put answers into your 
patients' miouths. You need to know all these 
particulars but without asking about it directly. 
Nine times out of ten the answer to a direct 
question will be '^yes'' or "no ;" such answers are 
without value and should not be incl'uded in the 
record. Questions which give a choice of an- 
swers are also defective. Making answers con- 
form to some remedy we may have in mind : a 
patient comes in, tells us a few symptoms ; we 
immediately think of a remedy and begin to ask 
questions, and see if we cannot get enough evi- 
dence to convict him of Belladonna, Arsenicum 
or whatever it may be. It is surprising how well 
we can make the patient give us the symptoms 
we are looking for, as well as how little evidence 
it takes for some of us to make the conviction 
and give the remedy. We are more apt to 
blunder along this line if we do not write out 
our cases. The mere writing of the symptoms 
helps us to keep cool and not pass hasty judg- 
ment. On page 206 Tafel's translation of Na- 



26 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

ture of Chronic Diseases we find *The physician 
can, indeed, make no worse mistake than to con- 
sider too small the dose which I (forced by ex- 
perience) have reduced after manifold trials and 
which are indicated with every antipsoric rem- 
ery. Secondly, the wrong choice of a remedy, 
and, Thirdly, the hastiness which does not allow 
each dose to act its full time." 

In remarking as to the cause of the second 
mistake we will quote from the same writings, 
on page 207, as follows : 

''As to the second chief error in the cure of 
chronic diseases (the unhomoeopathic choice of 
medicine) the homoeopathic beginner (many, I 
am sorry to say, remain such beginners their life 
long) sins chiefly through inexactness, lack of 
earnestness and through love of ease." 

A difficulty may arise in those obscure cases 
the symptoms of which have been masked by 
drugging, homoeopathic and otherwise, opera- 
tions, etc., so that these cases only present a few 
common symptoms, which can only guide us to 
a group of remedies in which the similimum 
must be found after exhaustive study of the 
materia medica. 

Many times in these cases before we can make 
any progress we must go back through the life 



HOW TO FIND THE REMEDY. 2/ 

of the patient to childhood and note all symp- 
toms which preceded the pathological change 
that now obscures the image of your case. 
"Symptoms that existed in childhood and since 
childhood and those present before any pathol- 
ogy existed are the corresponding symptoms of 
causes; as all causes are continuous into effects. 
They give us an image of the case from causes 
to pathological endings. These symptoms 
through childhood down to present are greatly 
important and describe the progress of sickness." 

How to Find the Remedy. 

Having thus far outlined, in a brief way, the 
homoeopathic philosophy of the first divis»ion of 
our Trinity, we will pass to the second angle, that 
of finding the homoeopathically indicated remedy. 

We believe that Homoeopathy is applicable to 
every curable case; the great thing is to know 
how to find and apply it. 

If we had nothing but the mass of symptoms 
as recorded in the materia medica to help in the 
search for the single remedy which would cover 
the totality of a complicated chronic case, it would 
indeed be a gigantic task, and the excuse of many 
practitioners that they do not have the time to 
practice straight Homoeopathy would be plausi- 
ble; but we have in the repertory a valuable 



28 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

help along this line, so that with little practice 
and study the remedy may be found with amaz- 
ing rapidity. 

That the technique of surgery is wonderful in 
its results when carefully applied in its proper 
sphere is admitted by all physicians; that there 
is an equally wonderful technique of scientific 
Homoeopathy must also be conceded or the rea- 
son for our being, as homoeopaths, ceases to exist. 
That the science of Homoeopathy is exact when 
appHed by the use of the repertory has been 
proved many times, and it will be my object to- 
day not only to demonstrate this truth, but to try 
and give you an insight into the methods used, so 
that you may obtain accurate scientific results 
easily and rapidly. 

There are several complete repertories now 
pubtished and the use of any one of them will 
be of untold aid in finding the right remedy. 
When one has become familiar with their ar- 
rangement all the time that is really consumed is 
in the taking of the case. 

When you have decided on the repertory you 
wish to use confine yourself to that one and com- 
pletely master its arrangement, for the most 
rapid work and the best results can only be ob- 
tained by the close study and working knowledge 



INDEX TO KENT S REPERTORY. 2g 

of one. Personally, I can do the best and most 
rapid work with Kent's great work, and my 
demonstration here will be taken from Kent's 
Repertory. Before trying to use the repertory 
in your work read the headings of the general 
rubrics from beginning to end and thus familiar- 
ize yourself with the arrangement of the work, 
so that no tiime will be lost in looking for your 
symptoms. Only by this and by constant use 
can the repertory be a companion and helper. 

Index to Arrangement of Kent's Repertory. 

The Repertory is divided into the following 
thirty-seven sections, and are found in the order 
given below : 

Mind, page i. 

Vertigo, 96. 

Head, 107. 

Eye, 239. 

Vision, 275. 

Ear, 290. 

Hearing, 326. 

Nose, 329. 

Coryza, 330; Epistaxis, 340. 

Discharges, 334; Smell, 354. 

Face, 360. 

Mouth, 401. 
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30 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

Tongue (found in many particulars). Gums 
are also covered by many particulars. 

Taste, 426; Speech, 423. 

Teeth, 435. 

Throat, 452. 

External throat, 474 (covers Glands, Pain, 
etc.). 

Stomach, 478. 

General symptoms referred through Stomach 
found under : 

Appetite, 478 (which covers Hunger). 

Aversion, 482. 

Desires, 485. 

Thirst, 529. 

Particulars, as Nausea, 506; Eructations, 491, 
and Vomiting, 532. 

Abdomen, 542. 

Rectum, 605. 

Constipation, 605 ; Diarrhoea, 608. 

Stool, 633. 

Urinary organs, 643. 

Bladder, 643 ; Urination, 653. 

Kidneys, 660. 

Prostate Gland, 665. 

Urethra, 667. 

Urine, 678. 

Genitalia (Male), 691. 



INDEX TO RENTS REPERTORY. 3 1 

Genitalia (Female), 712. 

Abortion, Desires, Itching, Leucorrhoea (719), 
Memopause, Menses (721), Metrorrhagia, 
Tumors are all grouped under this section in 
alphabetical order. 

Larynx and Trachea, 742. 

Croup, Irritations and Voice are found here. 

Respiration, 756. 

Cough, 771. 

Expectoration, 803. 

Chest, 813. 

Haemorrhage, Murmurs, Heart, Mammae, 
Character of Milk, Palpitation are found 
in this section. 

Back, 872. 

Extremities, 937. 

Sleep, 1200. 

Dreams, Comatose, Waking and Yawning 
are found here. 

Chill, 1224. 

Fever, 1242. (Types are arranged alphabetic- 
ally.) 

Perspiration, 1257. 

Skin, 1267. 

Generalities, 1364. 

The two most important sections are found 
first in the book (Mind) and the Generalities 



32 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

which are last. The Alpha and Omega, the be- 
ginning and the end. 

Many of our chronic cases may be worked out 
from these two sections, from the mentals and 
the generals, as when these are found to be cov- 
ered by one remedy the particulars, which have 
been observed, and many of the common symp- 
toms will be found to fit in perfectly. 

The same arrangement of each section is used 
throughout the book so that the sequence once 
understood the finding of any rubric is very 
simple. 

First. — Time. 

Second. — ^Conditions, in alphabetical succes- 
sion. 

Third. — Where there is condition of Pain it 
is arranged as to : — 

(a) Locality. 

(b) Character. 

(c) Extension. 

To illtistrate, take a mental symptom Rest- 
lessness (page 72) : 

Restlessness in general, under which are found 
all those remedies which have developed rest- 
lessness in the provers or removed the symp- 
tom clinically. 

Then as to time. — Day time; morning; fore- 



INDEX TO KENT S REPERTORY. 33 

noon ; afternoon ; evening ; night ; midnight, and 
at some special hour. 

Then conditions under which restlessness has 
been observed (given in their alphabetical order). 

Aggravation in open air ; driving out of bed ; 
during chill; after dinner; during heat; before, 
during and after menses ; mental labor ; during 
perspiration ; on waking ; while sitting, and many 
others. 

All these ''modalities,'' when markedly pres- 
ent in a case, have great selective value. 

Let us now examine the section on Generali- 
ties. Here we find aggravations, ameliorations, 
sensations and reactions of the patient, as a 
'whole, to some physical condition, and to pain in 
general. 

Under these rubrics where nothing is speci- 
fied, aggravation is understood. The arrange- 
ment of the generalities is the same as through- 
out the other sections. 

First, time — morning; noon; night; at parti- 
cular portion of, and at particular hour. 

After time follow general conditions of patient 
as whole in alphabetical order. (Aggravations 
and ameliorations of various parts, head; eye; 
ear; nose; face; stomach; chest; back; extremi- 
ties; skin, etc., each is found in the section re- 
ferring to that part in particular.) 



34 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

These general aggravations as found under this 
last section are as follows: Better and worse 
from ascending; bathing; from cold; from wet 
and dry; from position; from motion and rest; 
from pressure; from rubbing, etc. 

Under aggravation from cold we have the fol- 
lowing particulars: Cold in general; cold air; 
becoming coM; cold, dry weather; entering a 
cold place; tendency to take cold; cold, wet 
weather ; cold f eehng in blood vessels, bones and 
inner parts. 

In looking for aggravations from wet and dry 
we find under wet: Applications; getting wet; 
feet; head; perspiration; weather. 

Aggravations and ameliorations as to weather 
conditions and time of year under : Weather and 
Autumn, warm, wet weather (under Warm) ; 
Summer, Storms, as to approach of and during ; 
Spring, wet weather under Wet ; Wind as to cold, 
warm south, windy and stormy weather; cold, 
dry and cold, wet weather is found under CoM. 

Under this section we find the general char- 
acter of Pain as to its onset and its disappear- 
ance (gradual or sudden). 

Its character, as burning; constricting; dig- 
ging; drawing; jerking; pinching; pressing; 
stitching; tearing, etc. 



INDEX TO KENT S REPERTORY. 35 

Its direction as to across ; downward ; inward ; 
outward; upward. 

We find inserted alphabetically throughout 
generalities nearly all the pathological nomencla- 
ture that there is in the book. Here are listed 
such rubrics as Anaemia; Arsenical poisoning; 
Atrophy ; Cancerous affection ; Caries ; Chlorosis ; 
Chorea; Convulsions (various forms); Dropsy; 
Faintness (fainting); Qlands; Measles; Mer- 
cury, abuse of; Obesity; Quinine, abuse of; 
Scarlet fever; Syphilis, etc. 

The character and frequency of the Pulse are 
found in this section, and it is grouped alpha- 
betically as abnormal; frequent; intermittent; 
small; slow; full; hard; soft; tense; weak, etc. 

Perspiration as to general effect is found here 
as giving no relief ; aggravation after, ameliora- 
tion after, and suppression of. 

The characteristics and particulars of per- 
spiration are found under that Section, page 

1257. 

Aggravations from eating and drinking and 
from different foods and drinks, as bacon ; beer ; 
bread; butter; fruit; meat; milk; pastry; tea, 
etc., the kinds and condition of food and drink, 
as cold drinks ; cold food ; dry food ; frozen food ; 
hot ; rich ; salt ; sweet ; sour and warm drinks and 



36 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

foods. These are all found under foods, while 
the desires, cravings and aversions to various 
foods and drinks, hunger and thirst (these be- 
ing expressed by sensations from the stomach) 
are found under desires and aversions in the 
stomach section, page 478. 

The general aggravations and ameliorations 
before, during and after menses are found in 
the generalities, while all important particulars 
and common menstrual symptoms are found 
under Section Genitalia^ Female, page 712. 

Many particulars having menstrual modal- 
ities will be found scattered through all sections 
of the book, as, for instance, Headaches with 
menstrual' modifications, will be found under 
Head section. Abdominal distress modified by 
menses, in Abdominal section. Backache modi- 
fied by menses under pain in back section, and 
so on through all conditions. 

Through everything throughout the book the 
same arrangement exists. The aggravation or 
amelioration of patient as a whole is found under 
generalities, but when referred to a part or an 
organ its aggravation or amelioration is always 
found in its place under the section dealing with 
that particular part. 

Pain. — One of the most frequent symptoms 



INDEX TO KENT S REPERTORY. 37 

that the physician is requested to remove is pain, 
and where to find the particular pain symptom 
in the repertory is most bewildering, unless we 
are familiar with its arrangement. The plan 
here is the same as elsewhere, which always car- 
ries one from what is more general to what is" 
most particular in its minutest detail. The first 
list of remedies will be found to cover the time 
of occurrence. Second, all conditions under 
which the pain is observed, these are arranged 
in alphabetical order so that any particular con- 
dition may be readily found. Third, the locality 
of the pain. Fourth, the character of the pain, 
and last, the part or direction to which the pain 
extends. Keep this arrangement in mind and 
you will have no trouble finding that for which 
you search. 

To illustrate, let us examine pain in the ex- 
tremities, w^hich is the longest and most com- 
plicated of all the pain sections. 

First (page 1022) we have a list of remedies 
which have been found to have symptoms of pain 
in extremities. 

Following this are two short rubrics, Right 
then Left, and Left then Right. Then follows 
condition as to time, and then a long list of con- 
ditions arranged alphabetically, under which pain 



38 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

in extremities is found, as, before and during 
chill ; after slight exertion ; during menses ; on 
motion; rheumatic; syphilitic; wandering, etc. 

Then follows a list which localizes in general, 
as Pain in Bones, in flexor Muscles ; Joints ; Nails ; 
Upper limbs; Shoulder; Upper arm; Elbow; 
Forearm; Wrist; Hand; Fingers, and Thumb. 
These subdivisions of upper arm are all worked 
out under same general arrangement, as to time, 
condition and extension to different parts. Cold ; 
heat; damp; dry; position and motion, as they 
aggravate and ameliorate in particular, are all 
found in their alphabetical order. 

Then follow the lower limbs, which are divided 
into their respective parts and which are treated 
as to time, condition, etc., exactly as the upper 
limbs. Thus having covered localities in gen- 
eral we proceed to deal with the character of the 
pain in its various divisions. 

Here, again, the whole extremities are 
analyzed, as under Pain Burning (page 1067) ; 
Burning generally, with its time and other con- 
ditions. 

Burning in the joints and nails. 

Burning in upper limbs generally, with time, 
conditions and extremities. 

Burning in all the localities of upper limbs, in 



INDEX TO KENT S REPERTORY. 39 

each instance with the time, modalities, condi- 
tions and extension. Then follow the burnings 
in the localities of the lower extremities arranged 
in the same way. 

After one characteristic has been gone through 
exhaustively it passes on to the next kind of pain 
each in alphabetically order. 

Pain whether in head, stomach, abdomen, chest 
or other part of body is gone through in this 
same general way into all its exhaustive finalities. 
This arrangement is so important that it will 
bear repetition. 

First, Pain Generally: As regards time and 
conditions, always in alphabetical order. 

Second. Pain localized with regard to time, 
condition and extension. 

Third. Character of pain generally with re- 
gard to time, conditions and extension. 

Fourth. Character of pain as related to each 
locality in its turn (alphabetically) with con- 
tinued reference to time, conditions and exten- 
sion. 

It is well to remember one point in looking for 
symptoms in the repertory, and that is, when you 
cannot find the symptoms as given in the lan- 
guage of the patient, do not despair and throw 
down the book in disgust, but look for some 



40 HGW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

synonyin until y,ou find what you are looking for, 
and when you have found this make a cross 
reference in your repertory so it will be easier 
the next tmie. 

Again, many fail to use the repertory because 
they think of symptoms in pathological terms. 
Symptoms are recorded in the materia medica 
in the language of the provers who were mostly 
laymen, and as the repertory is simply an index 
to the materia medica the rubrics must be in their 
simple language. 

From Generals to Particulars. 

Why do we work from generals to particulars? 
If a case is worked out merely from particulars 
it is more than probable that the remedy will not 
be seen and frequent failure will result. This is 
due to the fact that the particular directions in 
which the remedies in the general rubric tend 
have not been observed, and thus to depend 
upon a small group of remedies relating to some 
particular symptom is to shut out the other reme- 
dies which may have that symptom, although not 
yet observed. By working the other way, from 
the general's to the particulars, the general rubric 
will include all the remedies that are related to 
the symptom. 

Before the physician can make any suitable 



FROM GENERALS TO PARTICULARS. 4I 

homoeopathic prescription we must take our case 
properly; this is true if we use a repertory or 
not, but is of the greatest importance if the rep- 
ertory is to be used. Hahnemann gives clear 
and concise instructions for the taking of the 
case in the Organon^ sections 83-104. Write out 
all the mental symptoms and all the symptoms 
and conditions pertaining to the patient himself, 
and search the repertory for the symptoms that 
correspond to these. Then individualize the case 
still farther by using the particular symptoms 
relating to the organs, sensations and functions, 
always giving an important place to the time of 
occurrence of every symptom. In this way we 
will have before us an individualized symptom- 
picture, not of the disease we wish to treat, but 
of the diseased patient we desire to cure. 

Individualization of the symptom-picture and 
knowing which symptoms to give the most atten- 
tion form the hardest part of the prescriber's 
armamentarium to acquire ; and this process of 
logic, reasoning or whatever you may call it can 
only be obtained by study and application. The 
homoeopathic physician must use discrimination, 
must individualize things dissimilar in one thing 
and yet similar in other ways. This is done by 
the generals, for without the generals of a case 



42 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

no man can practice Homoeopathy ; without these 
he will not be able to individualize and see dis- 
tinctions. After gathering all the particulars of 
the case one strong general rules out one rem- 
edy and rules in another. If you know your 
materia medica you will at once see how to get 
the generals and this will enable you to distin- 
guish the remedy best adapted to the constitution 
when two or more remedies have one symptom 
in an equal degree. Then, again, a patient may 
bring out particular symptoms so strange that 
they have never been observed in the remedy; 
but if the drug covers the generals it will not 
only relieve those special symptoms, but cure 
your case. 

Remember this great truth, that the totality of 
the symptoms as represented in the symptom- 
picture of the prescriber will be an entirely differ- 
ent picture from that made by the surgeon, diag- 
nostician or pathologist. No man who can only 
understand the morbid anatomy and pathogno- 
monic symptom can make a homoeopathic pre- 
scription. It is from this difference as to inter- 
pretation of the symptoms by the different special- 
ists that the reporting of cases cured by the pre- 
scriber causes so much dissatisfaction. They 
want to know the exact pathological condition 



FROM GENERALS TO PARTICULARS. 43 

of each organ that produced the symptoms which 
were removed by the remedy; but the disease 
itself is only of benefit to the prescriber in help- 
ing him to select his grades of symptoms. 

After we have our individualized symptom- 
picture before us we are ready to prepare the 
picture for repertory analysis. In order to 
analyze our case with rapidity we must go about 
it logically ; we must have a starting place and a 
place to end. The start is made with the gen- 
erals, and the particulars end it. 

About the value of symptoms. Looking to 
Kent we find that he uses three classes — gen- 
erals, particulars and common, and in his rep- 
ertory he divides each into three grades — first, 
second and third. The generals and particulars, 
you must remember, have the greatest import- 
ance in our prescription. 

Let us stop a moment and see what explana- 
tion he gives of these cl'assifications. Looking to 
his Lectures on Homceopathic Philosophy we 
find that as generals he includes all things 
that are predicated of the patient himself. Things 
that modify all parts of the organism are those 
that relate to the general state; the more they 
relate to internals that involve the whole man 
the more they become general. Many common 



44 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

symptoms may run into generals and particulars. 
Things that relate to the ego are always gen- 
eral. The patient says, Doctor, I am so thirsty; 
I burn so ; I am so cold, etc. ; the things he says 
he feels are always general. His desires and 
aversions are general; menstruation is general, 
for when a woman says I feel so and so during 
menses she has no reference to her uterus or 
ovaries; her state, as a whole, is different when 
she is menstruating. (Homoeopathic Philosophy, 
p. 242.) 

The general symptoms as such are often not 
expressed by the patient or are not always to be 
recognized at first to be so; but on examining a 
group or series of particular organs we find 
a certain modality or feature which runs so 
strongly through them that it may express the 
patient himself. Here we have a general com- 
posed of a series of particulars. This most often 
happens under character of pains, as cramping, 
burning, etc., or in conditions associated with 
pains as heaviness, numbness, etc. Here a 
symptom may be raised from a particular or even 
a common to a common general. 

Generals Divided into Three Grades. 

(A) Mentals; (B) Physical; (C) Things 
affecting the whole physical body. The first gen- 



GENERALS DIVIDED INTO GRADES. 45 

era! group of symptoms which are of the highest 
value are the symptoms of the mind. These are 
divided into three grades : The Will ; Perver- 
sions of understanding; Perversions of memory. 

(A) The group of symptoms referred to the 
will are of first importance in individualizing 
your case for repertory study and are manifest 
through perversions of loves with various fears. 

In sickness the patient's nature often becomes 
changed; the mental symptoms are manifest. 
They may be quarrelsome, angry, irritable, tear- 
ful, they may hate their loved ones, they may be 
fearful, intolerant of sympathy. These are often 
the most difficult of all symptoms to obtain 
as they are most often concealed from the world, 
from friends and their physician. Among symp- 
toms of this group you will find ailments from 
anger, bad news, grief, love, joy, reproach, sex- 
ual excesses, contrariness, cursing, cowardice, 
hatred, irritability, jealousness, loquacity, quar- 
relsomeness, indifference, sadness, etc. 

(B) Perversions of understandings as mani- 
fest in delusions, hallucinations and illusions, 
etc. These take the second place in value for 
repertory work. Among symptoms of this 
group, which are not self-explanatory of the 
above, are found : absorbed, clairvoyance, con- 

4 



46 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

fusion, dullness, comprehension, both difficult 
and easy; ecstacy, excitement, imbecility, mental 
activity, ailments from mental exertion, etc. 

(C) Those of the lowest value of the mental 
symptoms are the perversions of m;emory. Such 
symptoms as absent minded, errors in answers, 
mistakes in writing and speech, disorders of 
speech, etc., are found in this group. 

Note. — If mental symptoms are marked/ 
especially if it is a change from normal, 
they are of the utmost importance to the 
CASE. Get these symptoms clear, the give 

THEM THE HIGHEST STANDING IN YOUR REPER- 
TORY ANALYSIS. The remedy which INCLUDES 
THEM WILL BE CURATIVE. 

Group Two^ — Physical. — The next symptoms 
of importance among the generals are grouped 
as those which apply to the physical generals 
that deal' with physical loves and sensations of 
the body as a whole. These may be sub-divided 
into two groups : 

(a) The highest rank should be given to per- 
versions of the sexual sphere, including men- 
strual generals. Symptoms found under this 
group would be those with aggravations before, 
during and after menses ; effect of coition,, urin- 
ation, etc.; character of discharges. (Taking 



GENERALS DIVIDED INTO GRADES. 47 

the normal as our guide any change, a decrease 
or increase or perversion would constitute a 
symptom.) 

(b) The next of importance would be those 
symptoms pertaining to appetite, food desires 
and aversions and thirst. (Eating and drinking 
as they affect the stomach are particular, but as 
they affect the body as a whole are general (as 
the craving for salt as found under Natmm 
mur.). 

Group Three. — Things affecting the entire 
physical body. Weather and climatic influences, 
foods that aggravate, extremes of temperature, 
positions, motions, etc., as they affect the body 
as a whole (as worse from standing under Sul- 
phur and Valerian is a marked general of those 
remedies), are all generals as found in this 
group. 

The effect of weather, climate and extremes of 
temperature are of great value, but are ofttimes 
difficult to get clearly. We must use great care 
in bringing out these symptoms if we are to rule 
out remedies thereby. 

Many times we find patients stating, 'T can- 
not stand heat,'' but on enquiry we find that they 
hate cold, but that their aversion is to warm, 
close and stuffy rooms, or it may be that they are 
worse in summer. 



48 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

In many conditions, such as rheumatism, we 
would expect aggravation from weather changes, 
the absense of these modahties, or that they 
might be better in wet damp weather, would 
transfer this system from a general to a pe- 
culiar, particular or characteristic. 

Such symptoms as refer to aggravation and 
amelioration from bathing, wetting, pressure, 
touch, rubbing, jarring, defecation, sleep, dreams, 
parts of day, time, month and seasons, are all 
generals. 

Sides of the body as left and right, semi- 
lateral, oblique (appearance of symptoms as 
found in Agaricus and Asclepias), alternate 
sides, changing about from side to side or vari- 
ous parts of body, congestions, contractions, dis- 
coloration of parts, atrophy, chlorosis, etc., are 
all classed in this group of Generals. 

Special senses are often so closely related to 
the whole man that a great many of their symp- 
toms are general', as various odors make sick, the 
smell of cooking nauseates, the sight or smell of 
food sickens, oversensitiveness to sounds, noise, 
light, etc., would all be classed in this group. 

Particular and Common Symptoms. 

The generals always rule out non-agreeing 
particulars. Under the particular symptoms we 
find: 



PARTICULAR AND COMMON SYMPTOMS. 49 

''The symptoms that are predicated of a given 
organ are things in particular. The symptoms 
that cannot be explained are often very peculiar. 
The more they relate to the anatomy of a part 
the more external they are ; the more they relate 
to tissues the more liable they are to be particular, 
although many symptoms of regions are both 
common and particular. Symptoms are on a 
more or less sliding scale. What is peculiar in 
one remedy may be in no degree peculiar in an- 
other; for instance, it would not be peculiar to 
have a fever patient thirsty. It is a common 
thing for them to want to drink, but it would be 
peculiar to have a patient without fever or chilly 
who wanted to drink all the time, as we find in 
some chronic cases.'' (Lectures on Homoeo- 
pathic Philosophy^ pp. 237, 240.) 

Under common symptoms we find : ''All those 
which are common to both the drug and disease. 
That which is pathognomonic is always common. 
For instance, if we had a pleurisy it would be a 
common thing to want to keep the chest wall 
quiet and you would get the symptom worse 
from motion, one of the keynotes of Bryonia; 
but if there were no other symptoms of Bryonia 
present we could not make a prescription on that 
rubric alone. Again, if we had an abscess it 



50 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

would be a common thing for it to be sensitive, 
and if pus was forming we would have throb- 
bing pains and redness, but Belladonna could not 
be given on these common symptoms if there 
were no other Belladonna symptoms present. 
You can readily see how the common symptoms 
have no place in our repertory work. You need 
not bother with the common symptoms, for when 
you have worked your case out from the generals 
and particulars turn to your materia medica and 
you will find the remedy will contain most of the 
common symptoms." (Ibid,, p. 238, 245.) 

Grades of Particular and Common Symptoms. 

After considering the generals we take up the 
symptoms referring to various parts or organs 
of the body. These are known as particulars, and 
are of lower value in repertory analysis than the 
generals. 

Running through all symptoms from inner- 
most to outermost, from mind to skin, from gen- 
erals to particulars, we have two divisions : 

(a) The strange, rare, peculiar and uncommon 
symptoms. 

(b) The common symptoms. 

Be these general or particular, mental or phy- 
sical, common symptoms must be considered 
last in every case of repertory study. First, we 



GRADES OF SYMPTOMS. 51 

must become familiar with symptoms that are 
common, then it will be easy to know what are 
uncomomn, strange, rare and peculiar. 

Common symptoms as related to many reme- 
dies are found in the large rubrics in the reper- 
tory, such as constipation, irritability, chill, fever, 
sweat, weakness, etc. These common symptoms 
may become peculiar where their circumstances 
are peculiar, as trembling during stool, before a 
storm, during urination, etc. Chilliness, if con- 
stant, is a strong, common general, as it refers to 
the whole patient, but if it comes only in bed, 
or before urination or before, during or after 
stool or in relation to menses or only at night or 
while eating, it is at once changed to a strange, 
rare, peculiar or characteristic. 

Weakness is also common if constant, but 
may become uncommon, strange, rare and pecu- 
liar if it comes" only while eating, or during a 
storm or after stool or when cold. 

All of these modalities are common to no 
known disease, and so they become striking and 
peculiar and help to individualize the picture for 
repertory work. 

It is in showing what is common to disease 
that pathology helps us, hence it is important 
that we make a diagnosis, not that we may pre- 



52 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

scribe for the disease, per se, but to know what 
symptoms are common, and, therefore, worth- 
less as individualizers. 

The common diagnostic symptoms of typhoid 
fever are the general malaise, epistaxis, the 
peculiar temperature wave, gurgling and tender- 
ness in the right iliac fossa, rose spots, early 
dicrotic pulse, enlarged spleen, Widal reaction 
of the blood, Diazzo reaction of the urine. These 
symptoms you use to make your diagnosis; you 
expect to find them in every case, but among 
them are no symptoms to lead you to a remedy. 

Pathology through diagnosis helps us to elimi- 
nate many symptoms as result of disease. Stiff- 
ness may be a very troublesome symptom to your 
patient, but if it is the result of an ankylosed 
joint you know that remedies would not cure, 
therefore that symptom would be ruled out. 

Pains due to pressure of tumors or growths in 
the abdomen are very troublesome to the patient, 
but we know that when such end products of dis- 
ease exist, it is beyond the realm of medicine 
to cure without the removal of the offending 
growth. Thus all symptoms produced by press- 
ure of the growth must be ruled out of the symp- 
toms picture to be used in repertory analysis. 

Kent says: ''We must not expect a remedy 



KEYNOTES. 53 

that has the generals must have all the little 
symptoms. It is a waste of time to run out all 
the little symptoms if the remedy has the generals. 
Learn to omit the useless particulars, the common 
particulars — common particulars are generally 
worthless. Get the strong, strange, peculiar 
symptoms and then see to it that there are no 
generals in the case that oppose or contradict." 

Keynotes. 

It is among the peculiar symptoms that we 
find the so-called keynotes that are used by so 
many prescribers who take three, (or many are 
content with but one) characteristic outstanding 
symptoms, ignoring all others and overlooking 
the fact that there must be a general relation be- 
tween the symptoms of the patient and those of 
the remedy. 

This keynote system of prescribing is highly 
attractive to many minds, because it looks so 
easy and does away with all tedious compari- 
son of drugs and also from the fact that many 
brilliant cures were made by means of the key- 
notes in the hands of Lippe, Allen and other ad- 
vocates of the system. But you must remember 
that these men, as well as any others who have 
been successful with keynotes, have had a keen 
enough perception into totalities and the patho- 



54 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

genesis of remiedies so that they used the key- 
note which was not ruled out by contradicting 
general symptoms of the patient. 

Many of the so-called keynotes are both gen- 
eral and particular (aggravation from motion 
of Bryonia and sore, bruised sensations of 
Arnica) . 

The great trouble with the keynotes is that 
they are so often misused. Keynotes are often 
valuable characteristic symptoms, but if these 
keynotes are taken as final and the generals do 
not confirm then failures will come. 

Grades of Drug Symptoms. 

The grades of the drug symptoms are desig- 
nated in the repertory by the use of different 
sized type. Kent uses three grades, Boenning- 
hausen had four, but this fourth grade is in- 
cluded in those of the third under Kent's classi- 
fication. Distinction in the drug symptoms 
by placing one in the first grade by using capi- 
tals and heavy faced type; under the second 
grade by using italics and under the third grade 
by using small letters. Under the first grade 
are included all those symptoms which were 
brought out in every prover and that have since 
been verified. Under the second grade those 
symptomis which were brought out in the ma- 



REPERTORY ANALYSIS. 55 

jority of provers and have since been verified, 
and under the third grade those symptoms which 
only a few of the provers developed, those symp- 
toms which are cHnical and which have since 
been verified. 

Repertory Analysis, Dosage and Repetition. 

After the longest and most difficult part of 
your task, that of individualizing your symptoms, 
has been completed the remaining portion, that 
of selecting your remedy with the repertory, is 
quickly done and is a simple mathematical propo- 
sition. Like all other mathematical problems 
we must start with the right premises and follow 
certain axioms in order to arrive at the correct 
solution. Thus if the logic of our symptom 
analysis be correct, if the technique of selection 
be without a flaw, the choice of the remedy 
must be mathematically certain. 

Before giving the demonstration of the rep- 
ertory analysis I wish to say a few words con- 
cerning the administration of the remedy after 
we have found the one which covers our indi- 
vidualized symptom picture. One of the most 
difficult things to comprehend is when to repeat 
the dose. You will find as a general thing in 
acute cases that if a slight aggravation of the 
symptoms comes in a short time you will not 



56 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

think of giving another dose, for your patient 
will get along better without more medicine; 
but there are conditions when it is necessary to 
repeat the dose. For this there is no clear-cut 
rule that can be laid down, and it is a very diffi- 
cult thing to teach and to understand; rather it 
can only come by experience and by using your 
powers of observation. The safe rule to follow 
is, never repeat the dose after reaction begins. 
If more than one dose is necessary repeat the 
dose until there is an improvement and then stop ; 
more doses would only retard the cure. When 
reaction is taking place never repeat the remedy ; 
when reaction ceases or improvement stops the 
remedy may be repeated. Many good homoeo- 
pathic prescriptions are spoiled by too oft re- 
peated doses of the right remedy. We are often 
treating the effects of too many doses of the rem- 
edy when we think we are treating the disease. 
I do not like to bring the question of potency up 
in this place, but there is one thing I wish 
to emphasize; that is, when the dilution of the 
right remedy will only carry your case part way 
to health, and you are sure you have the right 
remedy, increase the strength of the remedy 
rather than change to another unsuitable one. In 
this way you will find your cases being carried 
on to a complete cure. 



REPERTORY ANALYSIS. 57 

We find certain rules given us for the repeti- 
tion of the remedy in our chronic diseases and 
Hahnemann discusses these on pages 209 to 213, 
in speaking of the third mistake in the treatment 
of the diseases. Quoting in part, we find, on 
page 209: "The third leading mistake that the 
Homoeopathic physician cannot too carefully or 
steadfastly avoid is in hastily and thoughtlessly 
giving some other medicine . . . but if 
once a medicine ... is acting well and use- 
fully, which is seen by the eighth or tenth day, 
then an hour or even half a day may come when 
a modern homoeopathic aggravation again takes 
place. The good results may not appear in 
their best light before the twenty-fourth or 
thirtieth day. The dose will probably have then 
exhausted its favorable action about the fortieth 
or fiftieth day, and before that time it would be 
injudicious and an obstruction to the progress 
of the cure to give any other medicine. Experi- 
ence teaches that a cure cannot be accomplished 
more quickly and surely than by allowing the 
suitable antipsoric to continue its action so long 
as the improvement continues. . . . Who- 
ever can restrain his impatience as to this point 
will reach his object the more surely and the 
more certainly . . . periods of aggravation 



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will occur, but so long as only the original ail- 
ments are renewed and no new, severe symp- 
toms present themselves, they show a continuing 
improvement, being homoeopathic aggravations 
which do not hinder but advance the cure. The 
physician must; therefore, in chronic diseases, 
allow all antipsoric remedies to act thirty, forty 
or even fifty and more days by themselves, so 
long as they continue to improve the diseased 
state perceptibly to the acute observer, even 
though gradually; for so long the good effects 
continue with the indicated doses and these must 
not be disturbed and checked by any new rem- 
edy." In footnote, page 213, we find: ''But he 
who will not allow himself to- be convinced of 
this and imitate what I now teach, he who is not 
willing to imitate it exactly, can leave the most 
important chronic diseases uncured.'' 

This third step of our Trinity is of equal im- 
portance with the first two, for no matter how 
well you have done the first and second parts of 
your task all your efforts can be spoiled by the 
wrong administration of the remedy. 

When we have given our remedy on the above 
formula we may expect certain things to happen. 
In all curable cases we will expect a cure to take 
place or at least to be started. We may know 



REPERTORY ANALYSIS. 59 

that this cure is taking place by certain signs of 
nature which are given to us in the symptoms of 
the patient, and the way these signs or symp- 
toms disappear will tell us if we are going to 
make a cure. If we are to cure the symptoms 
must disappear from above downward, from 
within outward and in the reverse order in which 
they came. 

From the study of the Organon and the 
Chronic Diseases, we learn that there are certain 
other things that we may expect after the pre- 
scription has been made. Kent gives these ob- 
servations as eleven in number. I will simply 
give them without further comment, as an ex- 
planation may be found in Kent's Lecfitres on 
Homceopathic Philosophy, or in a paper on the 
subject by myself, published in a late number of 
the Nofth American Journal of Homoeopathy. 

Following the dose one of the following re- 
sults is to be expected : 

''ist. A rapid cure will take place with no ag- 
gravation of symptoms. 
2d. The aggravation will be rapid, short and 
strong, and is followed by rapid im- 
provement of the patient. 
3d. A long aggravation with final and slow 
improvement of patient. 



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4th. A long aggravation with final decline of 

patient. 
5th. Full time amelioration of symptoms with 

no special relief of patient. 
6th. Amelioration comes first and aggravation 

comes afterward. 
7th. Too short relief of symptoms. 
8th. Old symptoms are seen to appear. 
9th. New symptoms appearing after the rem- 
edy is given, 
loth. Patients who prove every remedy given, 
nth. That symptoms take the wrong direction." 
The first case used will be an illustration of 
repertory analysis, working through the two 
divisions of Mental and Physical Generals. 
(Many are partial to this method, and it is well 
to use it in the beginning, as it trains you in the 
repertory arrangement.) 

My examples, as further cases illustrated will 
show, does not follow this method and has laid 
me open to criticism (from some sources) of 
being too mathematical in my methods and of 
the liability of securing erroneous results. This 
criticism might be sustained if one depended 
upon the repertory as the final deciding factor 
for the remedy; but taking the pathogenesis of 
the remedy, as given in a complete materia 



CASES ILLUSTRATING REPERTORY WORK. 6l 

medica, as the court of last resort I am at a loss 
to see where the criticism, is justifiable. To me, 
at least, my method of taking the most promi- 
nent general, be it mental or physical, as a start- 
ing point and eliminating remedies from the 
group thus reached is much more comprehend- 
able and more easily followed. In advocating 
this method I assume the physician to be familiar 
with the arrangement of his repertory and a 
m_aster of the art of the individualization of 
cases. 

Cases Illustrating Repertory Work 

Mrs. C. F., 35 years, record contains the fol- 
lowing symptoms : 

Mind. — Thinks of nothing but death. 

Homesick and worries about home whenever 
away. 

Cross and irritable. 

Memory very poor. Forgetful, which is very 
troublesome. 

Company makes her nervous ; does not want 
to stay and visit with friends when they come to 
call or spend the evening. 

Imagines there are persons in the room. 

Difficult to concentrate her thoughts on any 
one thing long enough to complete it. 

Head. — Headache most of the time, severe 
pressure at base of skull. 
5 



62 HOW TO' USE THE REPERTORY. 

Pain in right side of head extending down to 
neck. 

Aggravation from warmth of bed; from 
mental exertion. 

Amelioration from lying. 

Itching of scalp with much dandruff, with 
falling of hair. 

Vertigo in hot room and when rising from 
seat. 

Stomach. — Hungry all the time, but a little 
satisfies. 

Much belching of tasteless gas. 
Desires sweets which disagree. 
Abdomen. — Sensitive to pressure of clothing. 
Much rumbling of flatus with pressure both 
up and down. 
Urination. — Profuse, pale and alkaline. 
Sometimes burning in bladder after urina- 
tion. 
Menses. — Profuse. 
Irregular. 

Dark, with dark clots. 

Very much depressed and inclined to be 
tearful before menses. 
Leucorrhoea profuse for few days after menses 
— excoriates. 

Sleep. — Good but unrefreshing. Wakens 
tired and exhausted. 



REPERTORY ANALYSIS. 63 

Very sleepy after dinner (at night). 

Dreams frightful', usually of drowning. 

General Aggravations and Amelioration. 
— Better in open air. 

Worse from pressure of clothes about abdo- 
men and throat. 

Very sensitive to noise. 

Repertory Analysis. 

Mentals. — Imagines Phantoms, etc. (page 
2y?) — Amhr., Apis, Arg. m., Ars., Bell., Carbo 
v., Canst., Crot. h., Hep.^ Hyos., Lach., Lye, 
Merc, Nat. m., Op., Phos., Samb., Stram., Thuj., 
Sid ph., Zinc. 

Sensitive to Noise (page 79). — Apis, Ars., 
Bell., Carbo v., Caust., Lack., Lye, Merc, Nat, 
m., Op., Phos., Zinc 

Aversion to Company (page 12). — Bell., 
Lach.^ Lye, Nat. m. 

Physical Generals — Amelioration from 
Open Air (page 1307). — Lack., Lye, Nat. m. 

Menses Dark (page 727,). — Lach., Lye 

Menses Irregular (page 724). — Lach., Lye 

Menses Dark Clotted (page 722). — Lyco- 
podium. 

Therefore, if our analysis has been correct 
Lycopodium should cover this case in its en- 
tirety, and consulting our Materia Medica we 



64 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

find not only the general symptoms of the case 
that we have used in our analysis but all the 
others which are recorded in the record of the 
case. Therefore, we know that this remedy is 
the similimum to the case, and if administered 
carefully will cure. 

The second case that I will' give will show you 
how not to use the repertory. This method of 
trying to find a remedy which will cover every 
symptom of the patient is the one most of you 
try to use, and it is one that is discouraging not 
only from the fact that it takes so much time, but 
as well from the fact that many times the reper- 
tory will not give the particular rubric for which 
you may be looking. I selected this case for the 
reason that each of the symptoms can be found 
in the repertory and that one remedy covers 
them all. 

Case 2. — Mrs. H. S. came to me 2-12- oy with 
the following symptoms which I will give in her 
own language: "I am so nervous; am afraid I 
shall kill some of my people, as I go all to pieces 
and can't control myself. Thinking about kill- 
ing, I dream of killing my Httle girl. If I do not 
get better soon I shall commit murder. Every 
afternoon I have pain over my eyes as if burned. 
Can't read at night, as there are sharp pains go- 



REPERTORY ANALYSIS. 6$ 

ing through my eyes ; if I persist in reading dark 
points appear on the page so I cannot see the 
print. Hungry most of the time; in morning 
when I awaken there is burning pain in my 
stomach which grows worse until I get up, when 
it goes away. Always have to take pills to move 
my bowels ; before they move there is a sharp 
cutting pain in the rectum and many times the 
bowels come out while at stool. If I drink beer 
will have piles for two or three days. My menses 
have been too often since my last child, three 
years ago, and for a week before I am sick have 
whites each morning, which are much worse 
walking. There is not much flow, and it only 
lasts two or three days and smells sour as vine- 
gar. Can't sew for past month, as there are 
stitching pains in the back of my neck when 
bending my head forward. Feet cold as ice 
every afternoon and the cramps in my calves 
keep me awake nearly all night. Do not shop, 
as I feel so badly when I have to stand long." 

Repertory Analysis. — Fear of killing people. 
— Ahisn., Ars, a., Nux v.,, Rhus t,, Sulph. 

Dreams of committing murder. — Rhus f., 
Sulph. 

Burning pains over the eyes, worse afternoon. 
— Sulph, 



66 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

Sharp shooting pains at night, on reading.— 
Phyto., Sulph. 

Followed by dark points. — Con,, Sulph, 

Burning pains in stomach on waking, better 
rising. — Sulph, 

Cutting pain in rectum before stool'. — Asar,, 
Sep., Sulph. 

Prolapsus recti during stool. — Ign., Lye, 
Podo., Rhus t., Sulph. 

Leucorrhoea mornings, worse walking. — Nat. 
m., Bov., Sarsa., Sep., Sulph. 

Menses scanty, short duration. — Amm. c, 
Lach., Puis., Sulph. 

Menses smell sour. — Carbo v., Sulph. 

Stitching pain in neck from bending head for- 
ward. — Sulph. 

Feet cold afternoon. — Nux v., Sulph. 

Cramps in calVes while in bed. — Ars. a., Caust., 
Ign., Sulph. 

Worse standing — Con., Cycl., Lil. t., Puis., 
Sep., Sulph., Valer. 

Here we see that Sulphur covers each symp- 
tom, but with a good knowledge of the arrange- 
ment of the repertory it took me some time to 
work it out. Now to demonstrate how much 
more rapidly we can arrive at the same results 
by working from the generals to particulars, we 
will start with a general rubric: 



REPERTORY ANALYSIS. ^^ 

Menses scanty, short duration. — We find the 
following nineteen remedies that have this symp- 
tom in the first and second grades: Alum,, Am- 
c, Asaf,, Bar. c, Cocc, Dulc, Graph., Lack., 
Mang., Merc, Nat. m., Nux v., Phos., Plat., 
Puis., Sepia, Sulph., Thuj. 

Now among this group of nineteen remedies 
will be found one which will cover the totality 
of our case. If we were to give a remedy upon 
this one symptom alone we might give any of 
the above, for they all have this condition in a 
high degree; but if we did not give the right 
one we should not cure the case. We must in- 
dividualize our case still further, so we will use 
another general. 

Worse standing. — In consulting the repertory 
we find that of the first nineteen there are only 
the following seven which have the symptom in 
the first or second grade: Con., Coco., Phos., 
Plat., Puis., Sep., Sulph. 

But still we have seven remedies, any one of 
which may be the remedy so far, and we must 
individualize still further by another symptom. 
We will take the general, better in open air. 
Here we find that we have only four remedies 
of our previous group which have this symptom 
in the first and second grade — Con., Phos., Puis., 
Sulph, 



68 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

We have now worked our list down to four 
remedies and we will' individualize again by tak- 
ing another general, fear of committing murder. 
This gives us Sulphur^ the only remedy which 
covers all of the symptoms we have taken so far. 
Now if the logic of our reasoning be correct, if 
the technique of selection be without a flaw, 
Sulphur must be the mathematically correct rem- 
edy, and reference to the pathogenesis of the 
remedy shows that Sulphur not only covers these 
four symptoms we have used, but it also con- 
tains all the other particular and common symp- 
toms of the case. The proof of the pudding is 
in the eating, so we will' turn to our record and 
we find that patient was discharged 7-7- oy ; that 
all symptoms had disappeared, bowels move 
naturally. Says she never felt better in her life. 

Case 3. — Boy, age 14; epileptic attacks for 
three years. First attack followed fright caused 
by other boys' make believe to hang him. At- 
tacks increasing in frequency until at this time 
they occur every two weeks. The following 
symptoms were given : Attacks begin by run- 
ning around in circle, then falls down uncon- 
scious. Attacks are more frequent in cold dry 
weather and during new moon. Involuntary 
urination during the attack. Boy complains of 



BLEPERTORY ANALYSIS. 69 

always being cold; wants to keep warm both 
summer and winter. He is very touchy; every- 
thing makes him cry; seems depressed all the 
time. Appetite either ravenous or wanting. 
Aversion to all kinds of sweets, of which he was 
previously very fond. 

Repertory Analysis. — Under complaint 
caused by fright we find thirty-six remedies. Of 
these the following twenty-one have the symp- 
toms on the first and second grade: Aeon., Apis, 
Arg, n., Art. v., Aur., Bell., Caust., Coff., Cupr., 
Gels., Glon., Hyos., Ign., Lach., Lye, Nat. m., 
Nux v., Op., Plat., Puis., Rhus t. 

Sadness and depressed. — Aeon., Arg. n., Aur., 
Bell., Caust., Gels., Ign., Lach., Nat. m., Plat., 
Puis. 

Worse cold dry weather. — Aeon., Caust. 

Aversion to sweets. — Causticum. 

We have arrived at the solution of the case by 
four steps and have used all general symptoms. 
Now you may ask, why did we start with the 
rubric complaints caused by fright ? First : This 
is a general symptom and we are working from 
the generals to particulars. Second: This con- 
dition was caused in this boy by fright. This 
mental shock was so profound that it caused the 
whole condition of this patient to be changed. 



70 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

It not only produced the epileptic seizure, but 
affected his desires as well. Some one of the 
remedies found under this rubric will be the 
one which will cover the totality of the case. 
The second symptom we will take is another 
general — sadness and depression. We take this 
rubric from the fact that it is a mental condi- 
tion produced by a derangement of the patient's 
most internal condition, the mind. Now if we 
hope to cure this case we must have a remedy 
which has produced this symptom in the provers, 
so among our first twenty-one we find eleven 
with this symptom in the first and second grade. 
Another general condition is the modality that 
the attacks are worse in cold dry weather. 
Among the eleven remedies found in the first 
two rubrics we find only two which are worse in 
cold dry weather. In order to decide which of 
these two will cover our case we will take the 
general aversion to sweets. Here we find that 
Causticum is the only remedy which covers our 
rubrics. If our reasoning has been correct, if 
the technique of selection is without a flaw, 
Causticum must be the mathematically correct 
remedy, and turning to our materia medica we 
find that the pathogenesis of Causticum not only 
contains the rubrics we have used in our analysis, 



REPERTORY ANALYSIS. 7I 

but the remaining symptoms of our case as well. 
Therefore, Causticum is the remedy we will give. 
Our records show that two doses of this remedy 
were administered with the following results: 
The attacks lessened during the first month to 
one ; the second attack, a very slight one, did not 
follow for seven weeks, and now, after an in- 
terval of a year and a half, there has been no 
sign of a return, so we may safely say the boy 
is cured. 

Case 4. — Mrs. A. S., set. 28; married four 
years; menses have always been irregular, but 
during the first year of married life were more 
regular but always profuse. The third year 
married gave birth to a seven-pound child ; labor 
normal ; no lacerations. Since labor has never 
been well; the menses would appear every two 
weeks; then every five or six weeks, with no 
regularity. The flow would be profuse and 
weakening. Had had curettages and various 
treatments without any relief. The condition of 
patient at the time of first prescription was as 
follows: Menses irregular and profuse; great 
weakness when walking; the walk from the car 
to office completely exhausted her. Cannot 
sleep; what sleep she gets is unrefreshing. No 
appetite; does not want to think of eating. 



72 HOW TO U3E THE REPERTORY. 

Craves beer, of which she had never tasted but 
once, and then it was repulsive. Sweats easily; 
is in a perspiration most of the time and has to 
be very careful about getting in a draft, as when 
she becomes chilly she is nauseated. 

Repertory Analysis. — Menses irregular and 
profuse — Apis^ Arg. n,, Art. v., Bens, ac, Calc, 
c, Carb. ac, Caust., Cimi.^ Cocc,^ Con., Dig., 
Ign., lod., Ip., Iris., Kreos., Lye, Murex, Nux 
v., Nux m., Secale, Sepia, Staph., Sulph., Tuberc. 

Worse from warmth. — Arg, n., Calc, c., Cocc, 
Con., Ign., lod., Ip., Lye, Nux m., Sulph. 

Extreme weakness when walking. — Calc. c, 
Cocc, Con., lod.. Lye, Nux m., Sulph. 

Great desire for beer. — Calc, Cocc, Sulph. 

Nauseated when chilly. — Cocculus. 

Just a word in explanation of our selection of 
the rubrics in this case. Why did we start with 
the symptom, menses irregular and profuse? In 
the first place, it is a general symptom; then 
it is the symptom above all others that has proved 
the change in the patient's general condition; if 
we expect to cure this case we must have a rem- 
edy that has in its symptomatology this condi- 
tion. On the other hand, if we took any of the 
remedies we find in the first and second grades 
under this rubric we would have a remedy for 



REPERTORY ANALYSIS. 73 

this local condition that so many and various 
lines of treatments had been used upon with no 
results; so not only must we take this symptom, 
but must take the other symptoms, which make 
this case of irregular and profuse menses differ- 
ent from every other case of the same condition ; 
in other words, that makes of it an individual 
case. Therefore, we proceed with the other 
symptoms. 

One word more, about our fourth rubric — 
great desire for beer. Ordinarily this symptom 
would be of little value, but here we find a pa- 
tient that before she was aflfected with this 
change of internal conditions did not like beer; 
in fact, she had never tasted it but once and then 
it was repulsive to her, but now she is sick ; some 
change in her desires has produced a condition 
of her economy whereby she has a craving for 
beer. Now the condition has changed and a 
symptom which in other cases would be of little 
or no value deserves a prominent place in our 
record analysis. 

This case also has another interesting pe- 
culiarity, in that if the keynote prescribers had 
been working at it they might have reached a 
correct solution, for in this case we find that the 
particular symptom, nauseated when chilly, is 
found under only one remedy, Coccultis. 



74 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

Our selection of Cocculus in this case was 
justified, for the case was cured. The menses 
became regular and normal; the weakness dis- 
appeared; the craving for beer vanished; the 
excessive perspiration and nausea left, until 
after four months she was discharged stat- 
ing that she never felt so well in her life. 

There are some cases where we cannot indi- 
vidualize closely enough to work our case down 
to less than two or three remedies. When this 
occurs we take that remedy which has the symp- 
toms in the highest grade and if the pathogenesis 
of the drug justifies we give that. To illustrate, 
I will give the analysis of a case without the 
history. 

Menses copious and dark, — Am. c, Am. m., 
Ant. c, Ars. a., Bell., Bism., Bov., Bry.^ Calc. c, 
Calc. p., Carbo a., Cham., China^ Cimic.^ Cocc, 
Croc, CycL^ Ferr., Graph., Ign., Kali n., Kreos., 
Lack., Lil. t., Mag. c, Nit. ac, Nux m., Nux v., 
Phos., ac, Plat., Puls., Sabin., Sec, Sep., Sulph. 

Worse riding in a wagon. — Cocc, Ign., Nux 
m., Sepia, Sulph. 

Worse before menses. — Nux m., Sepia, 
Sulph. 

Aversion to milk. — Sepia, Sulph, 

Sadness in evening. — Sepia, Sulph. 

Vertigo looking down. — Sepia, Sulph. 



REPERTORY ANALYSIS. 75 

Here we find by giving a numerical value of 
two to those of the first grade and of one to the 
second grade that we have Sepia having a value 
of nine and Sulphur a value of eight. 

Absolute reliance cannot be placed on numeri- 
cal superiority of points for any one remedy; 
that is, a remedy not having so many points as 
another will yet have the better correspondence 
with the vital features of the symptom picture, 
and be the curative drug to select. This selec- 
tion must be made from a final comparison of 
the drug's pathogenesis as given in a complete 
materia medica. 

In closing the cases for analysis I wish to con- 
clude with the following case tO' illustrate two 
points. 1st. That, as regards our prescription, 
diagnosis has little ov nothing to do. 2d. That 
if we could all forget our diagnosis while taking 
our case for a prescription we should all be able 
to do better work. This case will be given as 
taken by a young lady who had never studied 
medicine; in fact, all she knew concerning that 
subject was that when she or her friends were 
sick she wanted a homoeopathic remedy to make 
them well. I have never seen this case person- 
ally, but know she is well from reports that I 
have received through the mail. 



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Mrs. H. C, aet. 42; widow. Has eruption on 
legs, which burns and itches, and is worse from 
warmth of bed. She cannot keep her legs quiet 
at night. Is worse from warmth of stove, which 
causes creeping sensation over whole body. Feet 
are icy cold during day, but soles burn at night 
in bed. Lameness of left shoulder, which has 
lasted since rheumatism four years ago; this is 
worse when lying on it. The hands go to sleep 
and feel numb, more especially the left one. 
The wrist pains as if sprained when awakening. 
All pains are of burning character and change 
locality often and suddenly. 

Sometimes there are small' ulcers on inner side 
of left thigh, from which there is a thin offensive 
discharge ; walking will cause them to smart, be- 
come red and puffy. Stiffness in small of back 
on bending or beginning to move. The pains go 
down the thigh. She has a dry cough, which is 
worse after sleep and is caused by a tickling in 
the throat. This cough has always come the 
last of March or the first of April, and would 
last until real hot weather had come; with this 
cough she is quite hoarse and has sensation of 
lump in the throat. Menstruation is dark and 
scanty and offensive; has not been regular since 
last child, twelve years ago; she says all her 



REPERTORY ANALYSIS. ^^ 

aches and pains are better during her flow, and 
she never feels so well as when flowing- freely, 
although it is sometimes accompanied by a pain- 
ful diarrhoea. At other times she is always con- 
stipated ; has to go to closet and try several times 
before she has stool. There is sensation of 
weight and pressure in bowels with much rum- 
bling of gas. Abdomen is sensitive in the morn- 
ing on awakening. Complains of burning, stitch- 
ing pains in left ovary when constipated. Appe- 
tite one time is good, then she may have none at 
all. She says she cannot get enough to drink; 
has constant thirst and drinks a great deal of 
coffee. The mouth and tongue are dry ; has feel- 
ing as if the skin was peeling from the roof of 
mouth. Sour taste in mouth all the time ; tongue 
cracked, brown center and red tip. 

Does not sleep well'; has hard work to get to 
sleep before midnight and then she wakens fre- 
quently with shock in pit of the stomach and a 
tight suflfocating feeling in the chest. Lately she 
has complained that her heart feels too large 
for her chest when she walks fast. This op- 
pressive pain is sometimes relieved by belching. 
For past few weeks face and lips are bluish; 
has flushes of heat, but only one cheek gets red ; 
the other is pale. For last year her hearing has 
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been failing; she complains of a noise like a tea 
kettle boiling. There has been scarcely any wax, 
and what there was would be hard and white. 
Riding in the cold has always given her earache. 
She fears to go to bed during this last attack, 
as she thinks she may die, and she says she 
dreads to die so much. 

There has always been more or less head- 
ache, at different times, but the one whch has 
been the most troublesome is one that begins on 
the right side of head and goes through to the 
left until it aches all around. With this there 
is a drawing in the back of neck and burning 
pains back of the eyes ; some dizziness with 
sensation as if she were going to fall to the left 
side. She has an irritable disposition and every- 
thing seems to be worse in the morning when 
she awakens. 

Now what is the diagnosis in this case? I 
do not know. Have never made one. We do 
not care about the diagnosis, as it is not a dis- 
ease we wish to treat, but rather this sick woman 
we are going to try to cure. We have a well- 
taken case, and from this mass of symptoms we 
must select some that will individualize this case 
and make it different from all others. Let us 
look at the record and see which symptoms we 



REPERTORY ANALYSIS. 79 

will select for our repertory analysis. We find 
the following general symptoms : Worse after 
sleep, thirsty, burning pains, left side and better 
during flow. Making a repertory analysis of 
these we find under: 

Worse after sleep. — Aeon., Apis, Am., Ars., 
Camp., Carb. s., Carb. v., Caust., Chel., Cocc, 
Con., Euphr., Ferr., Hep., Lach., Lye, Op., 
Phos, ac. Puis., Rheum, Sabad., Sel., Sep., 
Spong., Staph., Stram., Sulph., Verat. 

Thirsty. — Acon., Am., Ars., Camp., Carb. v., 
Chel., Cocc., Con., Hep., Lach., Ov., Phos., 
Stram., Sulph. 

Burning pains. — Aeon., Am., Ars., Carb, v.. 
Con., Lach., Op., Phos., Sulph. 

Left side. — Am., Lach., Phos., Sulph. 

Relieved during flow. — Lachesis. 

Here you see we have worked our long case 
down to one remedy with five rubrics. We will 
now turn to the pathogenesis of Lachesis and see 
if our selection has been justified. In the Guid- 
ing Symptoms we find under Lachesis not only 
the five symptoms we have used, but also each 
and every one of the other symptoms; so this 
remedy must be homoeopathic to the case. 

Lachesis, two powders, was sent with the fol- 
lowing results: For thirty-six hours after the 



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administration there was an aggravation of all 
the symptoms, which was followed by rapid im- 
provement that has continued ever since until 
the last report, when she wrote that every symp- 
tom had disappeared and that she felt as well as 
she had ever been in her life. 

Let us look at the analysis of constipation, the 
great bug-bear of our prescribers, who say 
that constipation cannot be affected by the ho- 
moeopathic remedy. The reason for this state- 
ment is that constipation, in the common, per se, 
cannot be cured, for we have no one remedy for 
the disease condition. 

Even when we bring our case of constipation 
down one step in individualization we are no 
better off ; taking, for example, constipation with 
hard stool, under this common general we find 
eighty-three remedies listed under this rubric 
(page 635, second edition, Kent) ; any one of 
these remedies might be curative in such a gen- 
eral condition, but if we do not have something 
to individualize our case further we are at sea. 
Taking character of stool as : 

vS^TOOL Dry (page 634). — We narrow our list 
to thirty-one remedies, which are as follows: 
^sc, Amm, c, Arg. m,, Arg. n,, Bry., Calc. c, 
Cimex., Con., Cupr., Ham., Hep., Kali bi:, Kali 



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c.y Kuli s., Lac. a, Lyc, Nat. m,, Nit. ac, Nux 
v.. Op., Phos., Plat., Plb., Podo., Prun., Sank., 
Siu, Stann., Sulph., Zinc. 

With this condition is often associated inac- 
tivity of rectum, i. e., not having a desire for 
stool for three or four days. 

Inactivity of Rectum (page 619). — We find 
fourteen of the above thirty-one remedies, in the 
first and second grade, which allows us to narrow 
our group of curative remedies to the following : 
Bry., Cole, c, Kali c, Lye, Nat. m., Nux v.. 
Op., Phos., Plat., Plb., Podo, Sanic, Sil., 
Sulph. 

The stool may crumble, and if such is the case 
it will help you to further particularize the above 
fourteen remedies in order to find the one cura- 
tive remedy in this individual case. 

Crumbling (page 634). — This rubric gives us 
only five of the above fourteen which have crum- 
bling stool, and are as follows: Nat. m.. Op,, 
Plat., Podo., Sulph. 

The best we have been able to do with the 
symptoms that refer to the constipation, per se, 
has been to narrow down to five remedies, and 
but one of these five will be curative. You say 
we might give all five at once in a gun-shot pre- 
scription, and that is what some men do, and 



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then say that Homoeopathy will never cure con- 
stipation. Or that you might give first one and 
then the other in rotation, but you would never 
cure the case that way, although one of these 
five remedies will be curative if given alone. We 
must look for other symptoms of the patient, and 
you will always be able to find some in every 
case that will help us to individualize this pa- 
tient so we may find the one remedy. 

Suppose Burning pain after stool (p. 624). 
We find that this rubric only contains Natrum 
mur. and Sulphur of the above five remedies. 
We are now down to two remedies either one of 
which may be curative. Look at the tongue and 
see if you cannot find some symptom there which 
will help you out. Let us suppose that this pa- 
tient had a heavily coated tongue, but that along 
the edges there were spots which were clean. 
This would be known as mapped tongue. Look 
under rubric. Tongue mapped in circles on 
SIDES (page 411). We find that of our two 
remedies only Natrum mur. has this symptom, so 
if you have no marked generals to rule out 
Natrum mur. it would be the remedy and would 
cure the case, unless there was some tissue change 
or growth which from pressure was causing an 
occlusion of the bowel. In taking these old 



FORM OF CASE RECORD. 83 

cases of constipation do not expect to give one 
dose, or a dozen doses, in rapid succession, and 
expect the constipation to disappear over night 
or in a week. These cases are usually long stand- 
ing, they all have the constipation habit, and most 
of them the cathartic habit, and have to be car- 
ried along with your remedies in series, mayhap 
for several months, before a cure will be estab- 
lished. 

In order to cure your case you must insist upon 
the cathartics being stopped at once, and until 
your remedy has changed conditions so as to 
establish a normal stool you must depend upon 
diet and an enema of warm water to empty the 
lower bowel. 

Form of Case Record. 

Mind. — Place all symptoms of mind under 
this heading, but be sure and leave space on your 
sheet for symptoms that you may discover at 
subsequent sittings. 

Head. — Here will be placed pains, hair symp- 
toms, movementSvOf head, etc. 

Stomach. — This group will include pains, 
food desires and aversions, eating and drinking, 
appetite, thirst, nausea, vomiting, eructations and 
sensations. 

Abdomen. — You may place under this head- 



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ing symptoms referring to constipation, diar- 
rhoea, sensations as pain, pressure, etc., symp- 
toms of urination, defecation, bladder and male 
genitals. 

Menses. — These symptoms are of so much 
importance to the female case that a separate 
heading should be made. All symptoms refer- 
ring to the female generative organs, to child 
birth, haemorrhages, etc., may be placed in this 
group. 

Chest. — Symptoms referring to coughs, pains 
and sensations, expectoration, breathing, heart, 
pulse, breasts, etc., may be placed under this 
head. 

Back. — Sensations, pains, etc. 

Extremities. — All symptoms referring to the 
upper and lower extremities. 

Sleep. — Such symptoms as refer to the con- 
dition of sleep, dreams, etc. 

Generalities. — Here place all symptoms 
which refer to conditions or modalities that affect 
the patient as a whole, not already covered by 
the mentals. 

With the symptoms of your case arranged in 
this orderly manner, from Mind to Generalities, 
we have a record to which it is easy to refer and 
from which it is easy to individualize the record 
for repertory study. 



Part 11. 

Analysis of Forty Homoeopathic Remedies. 

These forty remedies will be far from the num- 
ber required in all your cases, and the forty I 
have included in my list will contain, no doubt, 
some which you never use in your individual 
work, while, on the other hand, some will be 
lacking which you find of daily use. Any list of 
so small a proportion of our vast materia medica 
would necessarily be open to such criticism; but 
I think that by the arrangement of this list of 
remedies you will acquire — by giving them a few 
minutes' study each day — a working knowledge 
of the remedies you use. If it is possible for me 
to enable you to systematize these few remedies 
then I am sure that you will arrange those which 
you find most often indicated, but which are ab- 
sent from my list, so that you may then have a 
working knowledge of the remedies in which you 
are personally interested. 

Consistent use of the repertory leads us to the 
study of our remedies in a scientific, rational 
manner, from center to circumference, from the 
mind to skin, noting the effect of the drug upon 
the provers, as given in the pathogenesis, in the 



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will, the intellect and responses to every environ- 
ment, thus learning to observe the disordered pa- 
tient rather than pathological changes in the or- 
gans or parts. 

In trying to have an image of a remedy in 
mind learn to keep an orderly general picture of 
its action as a whole, following these generalities 
through the particular manifestations as referred 
to parts rather than only a few so-called char- 
acteristics of the remedy for your daily use. 
Kent's Materia Medica has the remedies so ar- 
ranged and their pathogenesis is so graphically 
portrayed that, after reading over a remedy in 
this book, a picture of the general action of the 
drug is left with you. 

The way I study a remedy and the kind of pic- 
ture I try to carry in mind, for daily use, are 
illustrated by the following short study of one 
of our familiar remedies, Arnica. 

Arnica. 

The red strand running through this remedy 
is the soreness. A general state of soreness 
throughout the whole body. The joints become 
sore, the periosteum is sore, the muscles are 
sore, and the soreness will continue until stiff- 
ness begins and we find the sore, stiff rheumatic 
pains of the Arnica patient. The soreness is 



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manifest in the skin, so that there are black and 
blue marks. The soreness is so marked that 
pressure is painful and the parts lain on are sore, 
so sore that he wants to move, to change posi- 
tion frequently, for the longer he lies on a part 
the more sore and sensitive it becomes. He is 
stiff, so the motion is painful; still the bed is so 
hard, the parts so sore, that he must move. 
Therefore, when we see our Arnica patient we 
must expect to find this soreness ; if not, Arnica 
will not be the remedy. 

There is a general relaxation of the blood ves- 
sel's in our Arnica patients, and this is manifest 
in the haemorrhages from various organs. In the 
subcutaneous tissues this is represented by ex- 
travasation of blood under the skin which re- 
sults in black and blue spots. The Arnica state 
which is associated with or preceding many acute 
diseases is manifest by this weakened state of 
the blood vessels, and the patient will wonder 
how she got so many black and blue marks ; even 
the slightest bruise or pressure will result in this 
discoloration. Little injuries produce bleeding. 
On mucous surfaces these result in haemorrhages. 
Haemorrhages of bright red blood which soon 
clots. The blood of the Arnica state soon clots, 
as is manifest by the blood-streaked or -flecked 
sputa which will contain many tiny clots. 



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Arnica developed in its provers violent chills 
and fever; the fevers are a low, slow form that 
is associated with inflammation. From the re- 
sults of the relaxed condition of the blood ves- 
sels all the organs of the body are prone to in- 
flammations and haemorrhages; but with these 
haemorrhages we will have this general condition 
of soreness. 

With these conditions we have pains, and the 
general characteristic pains that call for Arnica 
are, crawling, pricking or paralytic pains as 
if joints were dislocated. Unsettled pains 
which shift from one part to another; tingling 
and tearing pains. With all these conditions are 
the bruised, sore sensations, and a deep, pro- 
found disturbance of the economy which is 
manifest by weakness ; great and profound 
prostration, fatigue and sleepiness. The counte- 
nance in these profound cases will be flushed and 
dark; there will be a besotted look, as if he was 
intoxicated, and he speaks and thinks with diffi- 
culty. Many cases of cerebral haemorrhage and 
the low forms of typhoid will present this typi- 
cal Arnica picture, and unless these patients re- 
ceive this remedy they will die. From this you 
will be led to look for Arnica in your septic con- 
ditions, and it has many symptoms which corre- 



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spend to septic processes, such as are associated 
with typhoid and scarlet fever and other low 
forms of diseases. In septic diseases of every sort 
we find our patients running into Arnica condi- 
tions. Surgical septicaemia and blood changes 
due to surgical shock. Where Arnica covers the 
condition of your patient it will do more to re- 
store the antibacterial power of the blood than 
any number of vaccines. Arnica represents the 
surgical septic condition more closely than that 
of the puerperal type. (This latter condition 
corresponds more closely to Sulphur.) Wonder- 
ful is its action in preventing suppuration. A 
severe inflammation will be set up by an injury, 
a severe bruise upon the muscles, there will fol- 
low the pain and soreness and induration with 
final suppuration. A dose of Arnica in the be- 
ginning will prevent all this and quickly restore 
the part to normal. 

Bruises. This name at once makes you think 
of Arnica, and for this condition it has been ap- 
plied externally by all schools and by all people. 
The external application is better than nothing, 
but the administration internally is best of all. 
It is not the bruise, per se, that we can expect 
to relieve; that has happened and cannot be un- 
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that we wish to prevent and remove, and this 
came from the center from the internal' structure 
and can best be overcome from the center by the 
internal action of the remedy. 

Injuries to the head, with the resulting nerve 
and brain symptoms, send the patient into an 
Arnica state, and they will need this remedy to 
bring about order no matter how long ago the 
injury took place. The resulting shock of sur- 
gical operations calls for Arnica, and this remedy 
is given in routine practice by the surgeons of 
our school. The symptoms following operations, 
which Arnica will remove, are those which are 
produced by handling and bruising of the soft 
tissues and no others. That is the reason the re- 
sults are so often disappointing. Those sharp, 
cutting pains, the results of the needle or the 
knife, will never be removed by Arnica, but are 
rapidly dispersed by Staphisagria. Cuts and 
open wounds never call for Arnica, only as there 
are shock, bruises and contusions. 

Thus we have outlined the general action of 
our remedy, and these general conditions are al- 
ways present in a greater or less degree in 
every case that calls for Arnica. Where there is 
no soreness never think of Arnica. 

The mental symptoms of Arnica are striking. 



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and many of them are symptoms which you 
would expect to result from shock. Fear, ex- 
citement, emotion and horror stand out promi- 
nently. The fear that something awful is going 
to happen, that he is going to die instantly. This 
is marked and the patient has a horror of death 
and of the unexpected. In many of the acute 
conditions we have an obstinate and irritable pa- 
tient. He will want to fight with you and to 
drive you from the room. This excessive irri- 
tability will' often be followed by a delirium. 
Indifference, anxiety and hopelessness run 
through the mental state. In the low states we 
find a stupor. He is hard to arouse, and when 
you do wake him he will be confused and will 
not know where he is. Mental exertion, motion 
or physical exertion, all aggravate his condition. 

The pains in the head are pressive, cramp- 
like, darting and tingling, and are made worse 
by walking, ascending and mental exertion. 
There is nothing very distinctive about the par- 
ticular symptoms of the head, but any pains or 
conditions that arise from injuries will lead one 
to think of Arnica. 

There is a peculiar symptom under this rem- 
edy which is associated with the eyes. He must 
keep his eyes open. They come open spontane- 



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ously, he cannot hold them closed himself. As 
soon as the eyes are closed he gets dizzy, things 
go round and it makes him sick. 

The pains of the nose are sore pains, as if 
bruised ; much nosebleed when first blowing nose 
in the morning. The coryza of Arnica comes in 
the evening when going to sleep, but with this 
will be the general bruised condition, the sore- 
ness that will differentiate it from Mux or Pul- 
satilla, 

One of the keynotes of Arnica is manifest in 
the face ; heat and redness of the face with cold- 
ness of the body. It seems as if the blood had 
left the body and gone to the head. The ex- 
pression of the face is peculiar. We have a deep 
mahogany redness, with an intoxicated, besotted 
look ; he looks as if his mental condition was be- 
numbed; looks as if he was making an effort 
to find the right thing to say or do but cannot. 
He is stupid and he looks it. In injuries about 
the face, especially about the eye and cheek bones, 
where the periosteum seems to have been in- 
jured, we find that Arnica will remove the first 
effects, the superficial soreness, the black and 
blue condition ; but after this has been done away 
with there will remain a soreness that appears 
to be in the bone itself. We could give Arnica 



ARNICA. 93 

indefinitely, and these symptoms would not dis- 
appear, but Hypericum will follow and remove 
them speedily. 

The general condition of Arnica is exhibited 
in the mouth by soreness of the teeth. Soreness 
at the roots of the teeth, as if they were being 
pressed out. The gums bleed easily. Haemor- 
rhages from the gums after extraction of the 
teeth. This is one of our leaders in bleeders 
after teeth extraction. Soreness of the gums 
after extraction. This remedy will' do more to 
remove the soreness f romi the gums after extrac- 
tion than all the mouth washes you ever heard 
of. (Sepia is another remedy which is useful in 
this condition, especially in the nervous women 
who have been made sick by having a few teeth 
extracted.) The mouth tastes bitter and like 
rotten eggs. This is from the eructations, which 
are bitter and have the odor of spoiled eggs ; this 
taste remains in the mouth and you can almost 
smell it on the breath ; therefore, the books give 
^'putrid smell from the mouth;" this as well' as 
the eructations are worse in the morning. These 
eructations burn as they come up and cause a 
burning from the stomach to the fauces. 

With this large amount of gas in the stomach 
we have a loss of appetite. A loathing of food ; 
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even the sight of food is repulsive and nauseates. 
Meat, milk and broth are especially repugnant, 
and even his tobacco nauseates. Aversion to to- 
bacco, to even the smell of tobacco smoke, stands 
high in this remedy. (What does a peculiar 
symptom like this mean and what weight shall 
we place on it. We cannot expect to give all the 
ladies and others to whom tobacco may be offen- 
sive a dose or two of Arnica and make them 
lovers of the weed, but where a man has become 
a user of the weed, where the habit has become 
fixed so that his tobacco is a necessity, and then 
have some disturbance of his economy so effect 
him that what he desired and craved he now dis- 
likes, and has such an aversion to it that the 
odor IS even nauseating, we have what we are 
justified in calling a peculiar condition, and when 
this arises we will give it a prominent place in 
our symptom picture.) 

The generals are still with us when we study 
the effects of Arnica on the stomach. The sore, 
aching extending through to back. The stomach 
is so sore it feels as if it rubbed the spine, and 
as if the spine was made sore by this pressure. 
Pressing pains in the stomach ; as if it was pressed 
by the hand. This pressure continues until it 
seems to rise to the neck ; then he feels nauseated 



ARNICA. 95 

and bitter water comes into the mouth. The 
stomach is so sore that everything seems to press 
against it as if the xiphoid process was pressed 
inward ; as if a weight was on or in the stomach ; 
as if a stone laid in the stomach. Nausea; retch- 
ing; ineffectual retching; they retch and retch 
and try to vomit, and after straining for some 
time they vomit blood and bloody mucus. The 
blood will be dark and coagulated. After this 
the stomach will be more sore and burn. 

Inflammation of the liver and spleen often 
take on Arnica symptoms. Shooting and stitches 
in the spleen and pressure as if from a stone in 
the liver are found under this remedy ; with this 
condition we have a distended tympanitic abdo- 
men with passage of much foul flatus smelling 
like rotten eggs. The soreness and bruised sen- 
sation are stronger in all the abdominal symp- 
toms. 

With a condition in the stomach and bowels 
which led to the above symptoms you would ex- 
pect to have trouble with the stools ; you would 
look for a diarrhoea, and under Arnica we find 
slimy, mucus stools ; brown, fermented, like 
yeast; undigested; bloody; purulent; dark, 
bloody mucus ; large fetid, faecal ; yellow, offens- 
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A peculiar stool symptom of Arnica is the in- 
voluntary stool during sleep. The rumbling and 
colic in the abdomen are relieved after stool. 
Another of the peculiar symptoms of this rem- 
edy is that the diarrhoea is aggravated, as well 
as the accompanying bowel symptoms, by lying 
on the left side. During the stool there is urg- 
ing, tenesmus, sore bruised pain in abdomen; 
cutting in intestines; rumbling and pressure in 
abdomen. Tenesmus in rectum and bladder. 
After stool they are weak and prostrated and are 
obliged to lie down. 

From the low state that the Arnica patient 
represents we would look for its counterpart in 
typhoid, where its general soreness and weak- 
ness resemble Baptisia, Pyrogen and Rhus; but 
where the general and characteristic symptoms 
of Arnica are present it will be curative in cases 
where vaccines and other remedies will fail. 

The peculiar urine of Arnica is dark brown, 
with brick dust sediment; the urine is full of 
urates and uric acid that we find associated with 
rheumatic cases. From the general relaxed con- 
dition of the blood vessels we get bloody urine, 
haemorrhages from the bladder. "Urination in- 
voluntary when running" is peculiar to Arnica. 

The symptoms of Arnica referring to the 



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female sexual organs are distinctive; here we 
find the character of the haemorrhage changed 
to a bright red flow mixed with clots. The flow 
feels hot as it passes the vulva. Menses are pro- 
fuse, especially after a blow, a fall or a shock 
to the system. The general soreness is marked, 
and the pelvis is so sore it prevents her from 
walking erect. The uterus is sensitive, bleeds 
easily ; discharges of blood between periods, with 
nausea. Bleeding after coition. Arnica is espe- 
cially useful in nervous women who cannot stand 
pain. 

Not only for the resulting shock and efifects of 
the bruising resulting from labor is Arnica use- 
ful, but it has a field of usefulness in changing 
the character of the labor pains. These pains in 
your Arnica patient will be too feeble and irregu- 
lar, resulting from fatigue of the muscular 
tissue. They do nothing, although so severe that 
they drive her to distraction. Feels sore and 
must often change her position. Vagina sore 
and sensitive so she does not want to be ex- 
amined. Great soreness of the back during 
labor. Arnica high will often prevent after- 
pains. It will contract the blood vessels and 
prevent post-partum haemorrhages. Used in 
routine practice it does much to relieve the dis- 



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tressing after symptoms, both mental and phy- 
sical, of labor. 

The cough of Arnica is dry and is caused from 
tickling in larynx and trachea; the cough is 
worse evening until midnight, from motion, 
warm room and after drinking. The expectora- 
tion is scanty, difficult, of glairy mucus mixed 
with tiny clots of dark blood. The general sore- 
ness of the remedy is marked in the chest and 
is shown in whooping cough where the child will 
cry before the paroxysm. The coughing causes 
blood-shot eyes, nosebleed and expectoration of 
foaming blbod. With the cough is a burning 
rawness of the chest, stitches in left chest, which 
are worse from motion and pressure. 

From the general soreness and bruised sensa- 
tions in the muscles you would be led to think of 
your Arnica patient as a rheumatic patient, and 
such is the case. Arnica is full of bruised, pa- 
ralytic, sore and stiff rheumatic pains. The joints 
ache and feel as if they were bruised. The sore- 
ness is so marked that the Arnica patient is full 
of fear; afraid he will be touched; afraid of 
jars; doesn't want you to come near for fear 
you will touch and hurt the sore joint or muscle. 
In the back we have violent pains in the spine, 
sore pains ; spine feels as if it would not hold 



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the weight of the body. Small of the back 
feels as if it had been beaten. Pressive pain be- 
tween the scapulae. 

The rheumatic pains in the extremities are as- 
sociated with heaviness. The legs are so heavy 
that it seems as if he could not lift them; this 
heaviness is due to the paralytic pains in the 
joints, and is constant both when at rest and in 
motion. Limbs are sensitive to concussions, as 
the jar of carriage or of walking. In the arms 
we have violent twitchings going from the 
shoulder to joints of middle finger. Crackings 
in wrist joints, worse in right, as if dislocated; 
drawing pains in wrist relieved by letting hand 
hang down. Pressing, tearing pains in fingers. 
Cramps in fingers of left hand. These tearing 
and drawing pains as if sprained are also found 
in- the lower extremities. The hips feel as if 
sprained, with a pressive drawing in the left hip, 
which is worse from extending the thigh when 
sitting. The tearing pain on right external mal- 
leolus and on dorsum of foot with drawing in 
outer half of foot is peculiar to Arnica. Gout 
in joint of great toe with redness; pain worse 
towards evening and from pressure. These pains 
as if bruised and sprained with discoloration are 
a picture of sprains and here the remedy ad- 



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ministered internally will take the soreness and 
discoloration from the sprained ankle and re- 
move the first effects of the sprain ; those symp- 
toms which remain after Arnica are usually 
amenable to Ruta and Rhus, 

The most severe action of the remedy on the 
nerves is the paralysis, the prostration, the gen- 
eral weakness and sinking of strength; so weak 
he can scarcely move a limb. The prostration 
and general sinking of strength corresponds to 
the low state found in typhoid and other zymotic 
fevers. 

The Arnica patient has many symptoms dur- 
ing sleep, those symptoms which resemble the 
stupor of apoplexy and the sleep symptoms of 
meningitis find their counterpart in Arnica. 
One of the peculiar sleep symptoms is that the 
patient will be sleepy all day but cannot sleep at 
night. 

Your Arnica patient is full of chills; chilly, 
with heat and redness of one check; head hot, 
body cold; internal chill with external heat; 
thirst during chill (resembling Eupatorium), 
he will drink and drink, becoming more chilly 
all the time, and will have the characteristic 
stomach symptoms, and finally vomit a bitter, 
sour fluid. Chilly on only one side of body, and 



STUDY AND USE OF ANALYSIS. lOI 

that of the side lain upon. Many of the inter- 
mittent symptoms closely resemble Eupatorium, 
but the general and stomach symptoms will allow 
you to differentiate in this disease. 

Remember the generals of this remedy and you 
will find its greatest usefulness after mechanical 
injuries, no matter what disease name you may 
give to the condition arising from this source. 
Arnica will help not only to remove the disease 
condition, but if given early will prevent many 
of the resultant symptoms of shock from ap- 
pearing. Most of the particular symptoms of 
this, remedy can be figured out by applying the 
general state of the remedy to all organs or 
parts of the body. Keep these in mind and you 
will see how often many symptoms or disease 
conditions can be removed by this remedy alone; 
given internally and without recourse to any 
adjuvants. If it has the generals of Arnica it is 
an Arnica case, and does not require Baptisia, 
Bryonia, Rhus or anything else to be curative. 

Suggestions as to Method of Study and Use 
of the Following Analysis. 

Take first the twenty-two rubrics and memo- 
rize the group of remedies found under each 
one, paying attention first to the generals. After 
you have become familiar with your list of rem- 



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edies then learn the particular circumstance of 
the remedy under each rubric. This will give 
you a ground work of these remedies that will 
be of use to you in the daily work of prescribing 
for your acute cases. After you have become 
familiar with the above symptoms you may 
broaden your knowledge of each remedy by ref- 
erence to the materia medica. It has been my 
experience (as well as that of my students) that 
a few minutes' study each day will soon give you 
a comprehensive knowledge of the remedies that 
will be in shape to use at the bedside. 

Take, for example, a cold patient, one who is 
shivering with the cold, and, although covered 
by blankets, cannot get warm. We find this pa- 
tient having burning pains ; he may be thirsty or 
not, there may be oedema of mucous membrane 
with stinging pains. There may be scanty urine 
or any number of symptoms referring to a par- 
ticular organ or to disease condition, which might 
lead you to think of Apis, but the fact that your 
patient was cold would rule that remedy out and 
turn your thoughts to a remedy found under the 
first rubric. Cold and aggravation from cold. 
Here you would find that one of the twenty-six 
remedies given would be one which would be 
homoeopathic to the patient in hand. 



STUDY AND USE OF ANALYSIS. IO3 

Take another example of a patient with throb- 
bing pains. The first thought of the majority 
of our men when they hear throbbing pains men- 
tioned is Belladonna; but fourteen remedies in 
our Hst of forty have throbbing pains, and 
Aconite, Calcarea carb., Phosphorus, Pulsatilla 
and Sepia all have this characteristic pain 
in a higher degree than overworked Bella- 
donna. We will know at least from this 
analysis that one of our fourteen remedies 
will be indicated, but must individualize more 
closely to find the one remedy. If the pa- 
tient who exhibits the throbbing pains is worse 
after midnight think of those remedies that have 
an aggravation after midnight, and we will at 
once see that among these ten we have Bry., 
Calc. €., Phos., Sulph. and SiL Here we have 
five, any one of which may be the remedy to help 
your patient's throbbing pains. We learn that 
the patient is chilly, that the pains are worse 
from warmth, but that she desires very cold 
drinks. This at once lets us know that Phos- 
phoriis alone of the above remedies will be the 
one which the patient requires. 

Many other examples could be cited as to the 
use of the preceding scheme, but to those who 
will look to this work for assistance they would 



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not be necessary, and the student who begins to 
get a useable knowledge of our materia medica 
from this analysis will find that his learning of 
the remedies by this method will enable him to 
discriminate, individualize and differentiate his 
remedy and patient quickly, accurately and with 
an ease which will astonish him. 

Forty Remedies. 

The following remedies are those we will 
analyze: Aconite; Arnica; Arsenicum; Apis; 
Antimonium tart,; Belladonna; Bryonia; Cat- 
carea, carb.; Carbo veg.; Causticum; China; 
Chamomilla; Colocynth; Digitalis; Drosera; 
Dulcamara; Gelsemium; Graphites; Hepar; 
Hyoscyamus; Ignatia; Ipecac; Lachesis; Ly co- 
podium; Mercurius; Natrum mur,; Nitric ac; 
Nux vom,; Phosphorus; Phosphoric ac; Podo- 
phyllum; Rhus tox.; Sulphur; Sepia; Silicea; 
Staphisagria; Thuja; Veratrum alb, and Zincum. 

In order that we may analyze these remedies 1 
have taken twenty-two rubrics which cover the 
generals as to: (i) Heat and cold; (2) mental 
states as related to (a) restlessness, (b) fear, 
(c) crossness and irritability, and (d) tearful- 
ness; the modalities as to (3) motion, and (4) 
position when lying; (5) the time of aggrava- 
tion as to (a) afternoon, (b) after midnight, and 



COLD AND AGGRAVATION FROM COLD. IO5 

(c) after sleep; aggravation and amelioration 
from (6) pressure; generals and particulars as 
related to (7) thirst; aggravation from (8) eat- 
ing and (9) drinking; (10) the character of the 
pain as found under (a) burning, (b) cutting, 
(c) sore, (d) throbbing, (e) cramping, and (f) 
bursting. 

I believe that with the right use of these 
twenty-two rubrics we can eliminate remedies, in 
the majority of our acute cases, so that we may 
arrive at the one and only one which will cover 
our individual case. 

Taking our first rubric, 

Cold and Aggravation from Cold. 

This is covered by the following twenty-six of 
our forty remedies, either in the first or second 
degree: Aeon.; Ars. ; Bell.; Bry.; Calc. c; 
China; Carbo veg,; Caust. ; Coloc; Dulc. ; 
Graph.; Hep.; Ipee.; Ign.; Laeh,; Lye.; Mere.; 
Nu'x v.; Nat. ae.; Phos. ; Phos. ac. ; Rhus; 
Sep.; Sulph.; Sil. 

In using this rubric we must distinguish be- 
tween coldness, which is a lack of vital heat, and 
an aggravation from coM in various forms, or 
amelioration from heat. These are two distinct 
phases. A patient who craves warmth and can- 
not keep warm is cold, but the particular symp- 



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toms may be aggravated from warmth and 
ameliorated from cold. An example is seen in 
Phosphorus, which is a very cold patient, but his 
stomach symptoms are better from cold drinks. 
When he is sick he craves cold drinks, which, 
however, are vomited as soon as they become 
warm in the stomach. His head symptoms are 
also better from cold. Lycopodium, on the other 
hand, is a warm remedy and often cannot stand 
heat, but his stomach symptoms are ameliorated 
by hot food and drink. Arsenicum is a very 
cold remedy, yet his head symptoms are relieved 
by cold. 

Looking to the particular circumstances under 
which each of the remedies are affected by cold 
your leaders will be : 

Arsenicum when patient is cold and has gen- 
eral aggravation from cold, except the headache, 
which will be relieved by cold. 

Calcarea carb, has chilliness with aversion to 
open air and sensitiveness to cold, damp air, with 
aggravation of pains from slightest draft. 

China, where there is chilliness with coldness 
of internal parts. 

Causticum, where there is coldness that warmth 
does not relieve. The cough, diarrhoea, and 
rheumatism are worse from cold; paralysis from 
cold. 



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Dulcamara, complaints brought on by cold, 
damp weather and living in damp places ; coryza, 
cough and neuralgia are worse from cold. 

Graphites, predominantly chilly ; the coryza, 
bone pains and stomach are worse from cold, 
while the skin symptoms are worse from warmth. 

Hepar is another chilly patient ; extremely sen- 
sitive to slight draft; is worse from- cold wind 
and cold drinks ; aggravation from getting a part 
cold. 

Lycopodium, while a warm remedy, stands 
high in its particulars, being aggravated by cold, 
as its stomach, cough, throat and headache. 

Nitric acid, where there is icy coldness and ag- 
gravation from least exposure ; soles of feet cold. 
The coryza and chilblains worse, but cough 
better from cold. 

Nux vomica has general chilliness over whole 
body ; sensitive to open air ; aversion to uncover- 
ing. Cough and headache are made worse. 

Phosphorus is very cold, with coldness locally 
in the cerebellum, stomach, hands and feet ; neu- 
ralgia, rheumatism, cough and diarrhoea are 
worse from cold, while the stomach and head 
symptoms are relieved by cold. 

Phosphoric acid, where there is sensitiveness 
to drafts ; abdomen and one side of face is cold. 



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Rhus tox., where there is internal chilliness; 
aggravation from cold, wet, open air, drafts, 
cold drinks and cold east wind. 

Silica, where there is general chilliness, al- 
ways cold; cold weather, cold water and cold in 
general aggravate. 

If the above do not cover your case examine 
the following: 

Aconite, is worse from cold, dry winds, com- 
plaints from riding in; makes the coryza, con- 
junctivitis, toothache, croup, cough and rheuma- 
tism worse. 

Belladonna, where there is aggravation by go- 
ing from warm to cold ; aggravation from drafts 
and cold wind. 

Bryonia, where there is chilliness; complaints 
from cold drinks in hot weather. 

Carbo veg., where there is susceptibility to 
cold. Cold nose, knees, etc. 

Colocynth, where there is coldness of whole 
body; aggravation from cold weather; stomach, 
coryza, gastritis and rheumatism are worse from 
cold; tearing, stinging pain in face from taking 
cold. 

Ipecac has oversensitiveness to both heat and 
cold; colic from cold drinks; aggravation in 
winter. 



COLD AND AGGRAVATION FROM COLD. ICQ 

Ignatia has chill predominating; coi'd winds 
and air alike aggravate; washing hands in cold 
water aggravates pains ; nose, feet, and legs up 
to knees are cold. 

Lachesis has a coldness over the whole body; 
limbs and upper lip cold; throat worse from 
drafts. 

Mercurius, cannot bear cold; extremely sen- 
sitive. Coldness in ears, testicles and lower 
limbs. 

Natrum mur., icy coldness about the heart; 
coldness of feet, joints, back and stomach. 

Sepia has coldness over whole body; sensitive 
to cold, damp air; the cough, eruptions, tooth- 
ache and rheumatism are worse from cold. 

Sulphur is worse in cold, windy weather; in 
damp, cold weather ; the throat and the diarrhoea 
are worse from cold. 

Warmth and Aggravation from Warmth. 

Are covered by the following eighteen remedies : 
Apis; Ant. t.; Bry.; Dulc; Bros.; Graph.; Ipec; 
Lack., Lye, Merc, Nat. mur.; Phos., Puls. ; 
Secale; Sulph.; Sepia; Verat. and Zinc. 

Your leaders will be : 

Apis, where there is general condition of 
warmth with aggravation from warm room. 
The chill and headache are worse from warmth. 
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Pulsatilla is too warm, with great internal heat ; 
aggravation from warm room and warm food; 
from heat of stove, with general aggravation of 
all complaints from heat. 

Secale, cannot bear heat, will throw off all 
covering; aversion to heat; internal pains much 
aggravated by heat. Warm drinks aggravate 
the coldness of stomach. 

Antimonium tart., the head is worse from 
warmth ; cough is worse from warm drinks ; ag- 
gravation from getting warm in bed; drowsy 
from warmth. 

Bryonia, head, face and chills are worse. 
Cough worse from warm air and room. 

Drosera, while always chilly, has < of cough ; 
ulcers, and pain in long bones from warmth. 

Dulcamara, the cough, nettle rash and sneez- 
ing worse from warmth. 

Graphites, is worse from dry heat in the even- 
ing and night; itching is worse from heat of 
stove; toothache is worse from warmth. 

Ipecac, the heat aggravates the chill; worse 
from warm, moist, south winds. 

Lachesis, worse in warm spring weather {e. g., 
diarrhoea) and from warmth of bed; diarrhoea 
aggravated. 



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WARMTH AND AGGRAVATION FROM WARMTH. Ill 

Lycopodium has desire for open air; warmth 

< eruptions; warm room < cough and head- 
ache. Aversion to warm food [warm drinks > 
pain in throat] ; longs for cold food although it 

< diarrhoea and cough. 

MercuriuSj the external pains worse from 
warmth of bed; extremely sensitive to heat; 
headache, mumps, toothache, rheumatic pains 
and itching are worse. 

Natrum miir.^ is worse from heat of sun and 
in summer; cough and headache worse; tooth- 
ache aggravated from warm food. 

Phosphorus^ while cold, cannot tolerate heat 
near back; warm water causes toothache; warm 
food causes diarrhoea; warm drinks < cough; 
stomach is worse from heat; hands, face and 
arms become red from heat, and itching is worse. 

Sepia, general aggravation in warm room, 
warm climate, and from covering; conjunctivitis 
and headache worse; breathing oppressed from 
warmth. 

Sulphur. Too warm. Throws off covers ; 

< warm room, warmth of bed and heat of sun ; 
headache, burning of feet and itching especially 
<. 

Veratrum has cough worse in warm room; 
neuralgia worse from warmth of bed; diarrhoea 
worse in warm weather. 



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Zincum, complaints from becoming heated and 
getting cold; rheumatism from overheating; 
warm room aggravates headache. 

Restlessness. 

The following thirty-two remedies have rest- 
lessness, either mental or physical : Agon. ; Ars. ; 
Apis; Ant, t.; Bell.; China; Calc. c. ; Carbo v,; 
Caust,; Cham,; Coloc. ; Dulc; Dig.; Hyos. ; 
I pec; Ign,; Lyc. ; Lack; Merc; Nux v.; Nat. 
mur.; Nit, ac; Phos, ac; Puls. ; Rhus t,; 
Sulph. ; Secale; Sep.; Sil. ; Staph.; Thuj.; 
Verat. a. 

Your leaders will be: 

Aconite changes position constantly; impatient 
and anxious at night ; must walk or move about, 
although it does not relieve pain. Does every- 
thing in great haste. 

Arsenicum, mental and physical restlessness; 
goes from one bed to another. 

Belladonna, during colic ; with cardiac trouble ; 
striking, biting ; wants to fly away from pains. 

Calcarea carh., mental anxiety and restless- 
ness; child cross, fretful and restless. 

Digitalis, where restlessness is associated with 
great nervous weakness. 

Hyoscyamus, turns from one place to another. 

Lycopodium, restless from oversensitiveness to 
pain; during colic. 



RESTLESSNESS. II3 

MercuriuSj mental ; desire to flee, with anxiety ; 
everything is done hastily; must constantly 
change places; uneasiness; restless 8 P. M. until 
morning. 

Pulsatilla, mental restlessness and change- 
ability forces him to get up at night ; cannot rest, 
although motion aggravates. 

Rhus tox., cannot remain quiet although it 
hurts to move; mental restlessness. 

Secale, spasmodic twitchings with irregular 
movements of whole body ; arms in constant mo- 
tion; head jerks about from side to side. 

Sepia, throbbing in all the limbs will not per- 
mit of quiet. 

Silica, fidgety; starts at least noise; internal 
restlessness and excitement; body restless when 
sitting long. 

Staphisagria, restlessness with lack of inclina- 
tion to move ; hurts to move. 

Sulphur, uneasiness and excitation of nervous 
system; constantly moving feet. 

Zincum, feet fidgety; must move them con- 
stantly. 

The following have restlessness in the second 
degree : 

Apis, is very busy ; does nothing right ; changes 



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kind of work frequently ; uneasiness, mental and 
physical. 

Antimonium tart,, anxiety; tossing about; 
throws arms. 

Carbo veg., restless at night, or 4 to 6 P. M. ; 
mental restlessness. 

Causticum, restlessness of body, worse even- 
ing; wants to run away; obliged to walk about. 

Chamomilla, child quiet only when carried; 
kick's when carried; whining restlessness; tosses 
about in bed; great restlessness with anxiety 
and impatience; jerking and twitching in sleep. 

China, compelled to jump out of bed. 

Colocynth, restlessness with diarrhoea; weak 
but has to move ; finds rest in no position ; head- 
ache compels him to walk. 

Dulcamara, great restlessness ; impatience ; 
general uneasiness. 

Ignatia, trembling of hands when writing; 
change of position often relieves pains; jerkings 
and twitchings in various parts of muscles. 

Ipecac, is restless in fevers. 

Lachesis, must change position frequently, 
with pain in back and limbs. 

Natrum mur., restless with chill; must move 
limbs constantly; hastiness. 

Nitric acid. Restlessness of limbs in evening; 
twitchings in upper part of body. 



IRRITABILITY. IIS 

Nux vom., great reflex excitability; convul- 
sive twitchings of single muscles; body tossed 
to right side and back again; legs drawn up to 
body with sudden jerk, then forcibly thrust out 
again. 

Phosphoric acid, walking relieves oppression 
of chest, pain in loins, hip joints, thighs, and pain 
in the bones. 

Thuja J tossing about at night from anxiety; 
mental restlessness. 

Veratrum, must walk about; mental restless- 
ness; constant twitches and silly motions; can- 
not dress herself. 

Irritability 

The following thirty-four remedies are cross 
and irritable : 

Agon. ; Am.; Ars.; Apis ; Ant. t., Bell. ; Bry. 
Cham. ; Calc. c. ; China; Carbo v. ; Caust. 
Coloc; Dulc; Dig.; Gels.; Hep. ; Lach.; Lyc. 
Merc; Nux v. ; Nat. mur. ; Nit. ac. ; Phos. 
Phos. AC. ; PuLS. ; Rhus t. ; Sulph. ; Sep. ; Sil. 
Staph.; Thuj.; Verat.; Zinc. 

Your leaders will be : 

Aconite, pains intolerable, drive him crazy; ail- 
ments from anger. 

Apis, is hard to please ; irritable ; ailments from 
rage and vexation. 



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Arsenicum, peevish, waspish and quarrel- 
some. 

Belladonna, quarrelsome; violent rage; bites 
and strikes and screams. 

Bryonia, weeping; angry; peevish; wants to 
be alone. 

Calcarea carh,, is cross during day; obstinate; 
vindictive; easily angered. 

Carbo veg., is excitable and peevish; strikes, 
kicks and bites in rage. 

Causticum, is peevish, fretfiil, quarrelsome, 
disturbed and ill-humored. 

Chamomilla is always out of humor; peevish; 
quarrelsome; angry. 

Hepar, gets angry at least trifle; obstinate; 
cross; extreme violence; threatens murder and 
arson; passionate fretful'ness. 

Lycopodium, is peevish and cross on awaking ; 
cannot endure least opposition; obstinate; de- 
fiant, arbitrary; morose, worse before menses. 

Nux vom,, is sullen; quarrelsome; oversensi- 
tive; scolding; ill-humor; gets so mad he cries; 
stomach complaints after anger; frightened 
easily. 

Natrum mur., ill-humor in the morning; great 
irritability; cross when spoken to; gets into 
passion about trifles; bad effects from anger or 
reserved displeasure. 



IRRITABILITY. 117 

Nitric acid, is headstrong ; trembles while quar- 
reling; fits of rage with cursing; vexed at trifles; 
sad and obstinate. 

Phosphorus, is excitable and easily angered; 
irritability of mind and body; prostrated from 
least unpleasant impression. 

Phosphoric acid has a condition of silent pee- 
vishness and aversion to conversation. 

Pulsatilla, is out of sorts with everything ; fret- 
ful, easily enraged; taciturn. 

Rhus tox.j impatient; vexed at every trifle; 
depressed and ill-humored. 

Sepia, vexed and disposed to scold ; fretful 
about business ; irritability alternating with in- 
difference; nervous irritability. 

Silica, headstrong; obstinate and violent. 

Sulphur is obstinate; destructive and easily 
excited. 

Thuja is easily angered about trifles ; obstinate 
and quarrelsome. 

Zincum is cross towards evening; irritable; 
peevish; terrified; fretful; cries when vexed. 

The following remedies will be less often of 
use: 

Antimonium tart, is worse after anger; weeps 
and cries in anger. 



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Arnica is oversensitive; ailments from anger. 

China, taciturn; ill-humor increased by pet- 
ting and caressing; stubborn and disobedient. 

Colocynth, throws things in anger; diarrhoea, 
vomiting and suppressed menses from anger. 

Dulcamara, is easily angered and quarrelsome. 

Digitalis, is gloomy and disturbed. 

Gelsemium, is gloomy and wants to be left 
alone. 

Lachesis, has a sensitive and jealous disposi- 
tion. 

Mercurius, has desire to kill person contra- 
dicting her. Taciturn. 

Staphisagria, has ailments from vexation or 
reserved displeasure; child cries for things, 
which, when it gets it, throws away. 

Veratrum alb., curses and howls all night; at- 
tacks of rage with swearing. 

Fear. 

AcoN. ; Am.; Ars.; BelL; Bry.; Calc. c; 
Caust.; Carbo v.; Dig.; Gels.; Graph.; Hep.; 
Hyos.; Ign. ; Lyc. ; Merc; Nat. m.; Nux v.; 
Phos. ; Puis.; Sulph.; Verat. 

Among these twenty-two remedies you will 
find your leaders to be: 

Aconite, has ailments from fright; afraid of 
crowds ; ghosts ; death ; dark ; of falling ; to cross 
a street. 



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FEAR. 119 

Belladonna, has fear, worse in day time; of 
ghosts; of water; hides from fear. 

Digitalis, is constantly tortured by fear of 
death ; fear of future. 

Graphites, is apprehensive; full of fear in the 
morning. 

Ignatia, has a dread of every trifle; terror; 
fear of thieves. 

Lycopodium, is timid; apprehensive; easily 
frightened even by slight noises. 

Phosphorus J has a fear and dread of death; 
fear during thunder storms; of faces, as if hor- 
rible faces were looking out of every corner. 

The following remedies also may be found 
useful : 

Arnica, has fear of being struck or even 
touched ; of death. 

Arsenicum, has great fear, anxiety with rest- 
lessness and prostration. Fear and dread of 
death; of being left alone. 

Bryonia, apprehensive; dread of future; 
anxiety about and fear of death. 

C ale are a carb., fears imaginary things that 
happen to her; anxiety about recovery; that she 
will become insane. Fear of death ; of consump- 
tion; of being alone (evenings). 



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Carbo veg., is easily frightened and has nightly 
fear of ghosts. 

Causticum is timorous, is afraid to go to bed 
alone ; full' of frightful ideas ; that something un- 
pleasant will happen ; fear of death. 

Gelsemium, has lack of courage; fear of 
death ; bad effects of fright. 

Hepar, has violent fright on going to sleep. 

Hyoscyamus, stands high in complaints from 
fright; fear of being alone, of being injured, and 
of poison. 

Mercurius, is afraid that she will kill herself ; 
of being alone ; that he will lose his mind. 

Natrum mur., fears that foetus will be marked ; 
that something is going to happen; that she will 
lose her reason; chorea after fright. 

Nux vom., inclined to commit suicide, but is 
afraid to die; frightened easily; anxious about 
condition ; terrifying illusions. 

Pulsatilla, has diarrhoea after fright; dread of 
people. 

Sulphur, has a fear that he will be ruined 
financially. 

Verd^trum alb., has a fear that takes breath 
away; coldness, fainting and involuntary stool 
after fright; of death; easily frightened. 



TEARFULNESS. 121 

Tearfulness. 

Patients that are tearful are covered by the fol- 
lowing twenty remedies : 

Aeon,; Apis; Ant. t.; Bell; Bry.; Calc. e.; 
Carbo v.; Caust. ; Dig.; Graph.; Hep.; Ign.; 
Lyco. ; Nat. m.; Phos.; Puls.; Rhus t.; 
SuLPH.; Sep.; Verat. 

Your leaders will be: 

Apis, when they are discouraged and despond- 
ent. 

Calcarea carb., when they are easily offended. 
Despair of life. 

Caustictim, is hopeless, looks on dark side of 
everything ; weeps during day ; whines ; least 
thing makes child cry. 

Graphites, has inclination to weep ; cries about 
slightest occurrence; weeps from music. 

Ignatia, has inward grief ; alternating weep- 
ing and laughter; sits alone and weeps. 

Lycopodium, cries all day; weeps when 
thanked; sensitive and melancholy. 

Natrum mur., is sad and weeps without cause ; 
when spoken to ; concern about future. 

Phosphorus, sadness regularly occurring at 
twilight; prostrated from least unpleasant im- 
pression; tearfulness alternating with mirth. 

Pulsatilla, cries from sadness or joy; from 



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vexation and mortification; over nothing; when 
telling her symptoms. 

Rhus tox,, has weeping with prostration, worse 
evening ; desires solitude ; begins to weep without 
knowing why. 

Sepia, has involuntary weeping; great sadness 
with frequent attacks of weeping; worse walk- 
ing in open air. 

Sulphur, cries from consolation; during day 
and because she is depressed about illness. 

Veratrum alb., cries, howls and curses over 
fancied misfortunes. 

Less often indicated will be: 

Aconite, sadness alternating with laughter. 

Antimonium tart., cries from anger; from be- 
ing touched; during cough; whines. 

Belladonna, howls; cries from vexation and 
hopelessness. 

Carbo veg., thinks he has committed some 
crime, which causes him to weep. 

Digitalis, sighing and weeping; worse from 
music; tearfulness with low spirits. 

Hepa/r, is low spirited and sad, must cry for 
hours. 

Aggravation from Lying. 

Aggravation from lying is covered by seven- 
teen remedies, as follows: 



AGGRAVATION FROM LYING, 123 

Aeon.; Ars. ; Apis; Ant, t.; Bell; Cham.; 
DuLC, Dros., Hygs., Lack., Lyc, Nux v., 
Phos. ; Phos, ac; Puls. ; Rhus t. ; Sep. 

Your leaders will be : 

Arsenicum, must He but pains are worse; 
breathing is worse. 

Apis, worse from lying on left side; chest, 
breathing and cough are worse lying on left side. 

Chamomilla, flickering before eyes, nausea, 
vertigo, neuralgia, pain in thighs, and swallowing 
are worse; aggravation from lying on back. 

Dulcamara, has headache, cough and rheumatic 
pains worse when lying. 

Drosera, is worse from tying in bed; on the 
sore side; aggravation of cough. 

Hyoscyamus, lies on back, but cough is worse 
when lying. 

Lycopodium, the cough is worse from lying 
on left, and better on right side; lying on back 
aggravates breathing ; abdomen and cough worse 
lying on right side. 

Phosphorus, lying on back relieves pneumonia ; 
on right side relieves diarrhoea, stitches in chest 
and after pneumonia. Lying on left side ag- 
gravates heart, cough, rheumatism, and diar- 
rhoea. 

Pulsatilla, is worse from lying on back during 



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pains, and from lying on the left or painless side. 
Urging to urinate aggravated lying on back. 

Rhus tox., lying aggravates the cough ; ver- 
tigo; back; rheumatism and trembling. 

When the above do not cover the case one of 
the following may be indicated : 

Aconite, lying is unbearable during fever; 
palpitation worse; chest and cough aggravated 
from lying on right side. Cheek lain on sweats. 

Antimonium tart,, is worse from lying on 
affected side; earache; vomits when lying any 
way but on right side. 

Belladonna, headache and cough are aggra- 
vated lying on right side; aggravates pain in 
liver. 

Lachesis, has pain in lungs, left arm, back, in 
spine, and suffocation, all worse lying; invol- 
untary urination when lying. 

Nux vom., cough and pains in chest worse ly- 
ing on back; cannot lie on right side; asthma; 
sneezing and headache worse lying. 

Phosphoric acid, vertigo and tickling in chest 
when lying in bed. 

Sepia, headache worse lying on back; lying 
on left side aggravates cough. 



AGGRAVATION FROM MOTION. 12$ 

Aggravation from Motion. 

The following twenty remedies are worse from 
motion : 

Am,; Ars,; Apis; Bell.; Bry. ; Carbo v.; 
CoLOC. ; Dig.; Gels.; Hep.; Ipec; Lack.; Merc; 
Nit. ac; Nux v.; Phos.; Sulph. ; Sil. ; Verat.; 
Zinc. 

Your leaders will be found under: 

Belladonna^ where they are worse from least 
jar; aversion to least motion; colic, worse from 
bending backwards. Staggers when rising from 
seat ; headache ; vertigo ; pains in face, diarrhoea, 
metrorrhagia and cough worse from motion; 
cannot bear to stoop. 

Bryonia, has general aggravation from least 
motion; walking, ascending, rising, stooping and 
a misstep aggravate conditions. 

Colocynth, turning head, stooping and walk- 
ing aggravates; rheumatism, pain in abdomen, 
and in eyes, are worse from motion. 

Mer curias , pain in spine; joints; knee, palpita- 
tion, stitches and ulcers are worse. 

Nux vom.j ascending aggravates cough; on 
rising from seat vertigo and pain in right kid- 
ney are worse; turning in bed and walking ag- 
gravates brain and abdomen; staggers when 
walking. 
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Sulphur, headache ; noise in ears ; soreness be- 
tween thighs, are worse from motion; walking 
aggravates head, sciatica, legs, burning soles 
(cramps in soles at every step) ; stooping makes 
head worse; ascending and rising from seat ag- 
gravate. 

Silica, has general aggravation from even the 
slightest motion; stooping; rising and walking, 
aggravate complaints. 

The following have Particulars aggravated 
from motion: 

Apis, the headache, chill, stiffness and rheuma- 
tism are worse; stooping, walking, and least 
motion of hands, aggravate. 

Arsenicum, headache, ovarian pains, constric- 
tion of chest, are worse ; raising in bed aggra- 
vates headache; walking and ascending aggra- 
vate. 

Arnica, headache, chills, chest, stomach, stiff- 
ness and soreness are worse. 

Carho veg., has difficult breathing on slightest 
motion ; turning in bed and walking aggravate. 

Digitalis, motion brings on angina pectoris; 
desire to urinate and defecate. Oppressed 
breathing and asthma when walking; palpita- 
tion and cyanosis from motion ; cough worse 



AGGRAVATION FROM MOTION. 1 27 

from moving arms upward. Fears to move 
lest heart should stop. 

Gelsemium, fears heart will stop unless he 
keeps constantly in motion ; headache, eyelids, and 
cramps in legs, worse from motion. 

Hepar, pain in back and limbs from walking 
up and down stairs ; stooping and moving head 
aggravate headache. 

Ipecac, slightest motion causes nausea ; grip- 
ing in intestines ; sweat ; cramps between scap- 
ulae; cutting in intestines, and constriction of 
throat are worse. 

Lachesis, has aversion to every kind of motion ; 
walking aggravates vertigo and dyspnoea; head- 
ache, chest and suffocative attacks are worse. 

Nitric acid, has vertigo ; soreness in anus ; 
stitches in vagina and sudden loss of breath when 
walking. Dyspnoea and palpitation on ascending ; 
headache, chill and pain in abdomen, worse from 
motion. 

Phosphonts, headache ; dyspnoea ; weakness in 
abdomen ; exhaustion ; pain in heel and staggers 
when walking ; vertigo, cardialgia, palpitation, 
cough and involuntary stools, all aggravated 
from motion. 

Verafrum alb., least motion aggravates nausea 
and vomiting. Rising aggravates the cough. 



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Headache, cutting in stomach, debility and 
dyspnoea are worse. 

Zincum, slightest motion causes cutting pain 
from back into calves and feet; walking aggra- 
vates vertigo, headache, flatulent colic, burning 
anus, involuntary urine, and pain in knees and 
heel. Nausea, liver, chest and intercostal neu- 
ralgia are worse. 

Aggravation During Afternoon. 

Is covered by the following eighteen remedies: 

Apis; Bell.; Bry,; Coloc; Dulc; Dig.; Ign,; 
Lyc. ; Merc; Nat, m.; Nit, ac; Phos.; Puls. ; 
Rhus t. ; Sep. ; Sil. ; Thuj. ; Zinc. 

Your leaders will be found under : 

Belladonna, when worse from 3 P. M. to mid- 
night. 

Lycopodium, 3 or 4 and 4 to 8 P. M. 

Pulsatilla, 3 to 6 P. M. ; general aggravation 
in evening. 

Rhus tox.j fever worse at 2 P. M. ; paroxysms 
appear at 5 P. M. in intermitent fever. 

Sepia, has aggravation from 3 to 8 P. M. ; 
fever, vertigo and pains worse. 

Silica, has general evening and night aggrava- 
tion ; heat and thirst worse from 3 to 5 P. M. 

Thuja, has chill at 5 :30 P. M. ; mucous stool 
at 6 P. M. ; pressing in vertex worse. 



AGGRAVATION DURING AFTERNOON. I29 

Zincum, chill from 4 to 8 P. M. ; cardialgia 
3 to 4 P. M. ; moroseness ; vertigo, burning in 
eyes, sneezing, thirst, weakness and thoughts of 
death ; sensitiveness to open air in afternoon. 

Other Particulars that are aggravated in after- 
noon are found in the following: 

Apis, has chill at 3 to 4 P. M. 

Bryonia, headache ; frequent urination worse 6 
to 7 P. M. ; sciatica and many complaints worse 
afternoon. 

Colocynth, has aggravation, from 4 to 9 P. M. 

Digitalis, has 4 to 6 P. M. aggravation. 

Dulcamara, general aggravation toward even- 
ing; pressing out headache, worse toward even- 
ing, on walking in open air ; quarrelsome mood 
< P. M. 

Ignatia, the pains gradually increase afternoon 
till evening; 4 P. M. aggravation. 

Mercurius, chilly 5 to 6 P. M. ; coldness in 
testicles in afternoon. 

Natrum muv,, has heat, chill, and cold feet, in 
afternoon. 

Nitric acid, has cough, chill, vertigo, and in- 
carcerated flatus, worse afternoon. 

Phosphorus, has aggravation from 3 to 6 P. M. 

Aggravation After Midnight. 

Is covered by the following thirteen remedies : 
Ars. ; Bry.; Calc. c, Dros. ; Gels.; Merc; Nux 



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v.; Phos. ; Pod.; Rhus t. ; Sulph,; Sil. ; Thuj. 

Your leaders will be : 

Arsenicum, worse from i to 2 A. M.; anxiety; 
restlessness; diarrhoea; heat and coldness. 

Drosera, has aggravation of nausea; cough; 
heat and cutting pains. 

Nux vom., is worse from 3 to 4 A. M. ; cough, 
renal colic and sweat, are worse. 

Phosphorus, has aggravation of sweat, coryza 
and cough. 

Podophyllum^ has a diarrhoea with pain in 
abdomen at 3 A. M. ; cramps in the intestines 
from 5 to 9 A. M. 

Rhus tox., has general aggravation after mid- 
night ; restlessness, cramps and itching are worse. 

Silica, has general aggravation after midnight. 
Chill I to 7 A. M. ; wakens at 2 A. M. ; sweat at 
6 A. M. ; diarrhoea from 6 to 8 A. M. 

Thuja, has aggravation of chill ; headache and 
rheumatism; pressing in vertex from 3 to 4 A. 
M. ; chill at 3 A. M. 

The following also have less marked aggrava- 
tion after midnight: 

Bryonia, < 3 to 6 A. M. 

Calcarea carb., worse from 2 to 3 A. M. ; 
sweat and cannot sleep after 3 A. M. 



AGGRAVATION AFTER SLEEP. I3I 

Gelsemium, has dreams ; enuresis and leucor- 
rhoea. 

MerciiriuSj has thirst, ptyalism with nausea ; 
heat with violent thirst for cold drinks, worse 
after midnight. 

Sulphur J has aggravation at 4 and 5 A. ]\I. ; 
sweat after waking from 6 to 7 A. M. ; cough 
until 2 A. M. 

Aggravation After Sleep. 

Is found in the following fourteen remedies : 

Aeon.; Am.; Ars.; Apis; Carbo v.; Canst.: 
Hep.; Lach.; Lyco.; Phos.; Phos. ac; Puis.; 
Rhus; SuLPH. 

Your leaders under this rubric will be: 

Lachesis, where there is general aggravation 
after sleep and where complaints come on during 
sleep. 

Sulphur, starts and screams after sleep ; 
wakens frightened ; diarrhoea after sleep. 

The following have aggravation after sleep 
in the second degree : 

Aconite, on going to sleep fever becomes in- 
tolerable ; starts from nightmare. 

Apis, sleeps into < ; wakes weary. Starts 
from sleep suddenly with great anxiety. 

Arnica, paralyzed on right side; < after a 
long sleep; unrefreshed by sleep. 



132 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

Arsenicum, starts from sleep and is weary 
after sleep. 

Carbo veg., has aggravation of coldness of 
feet and legs after sleep. 

Causticum, is worse on awaking ; must sit up ; 
cramps in heels after sleep. 

Hepar, fright during and suffocation after 
sleep. 

Lycopodium, is hungry and unrefreshed; 
cross; kicks and scolds after sleep. 

Phosphoric acid, has sad thoughts; dry heat 
and hunger after sleep. 

Phosphorus, is anxious and unrefreshed. 

Pulsatilla, has indigestion and is languid and 
unrefreshed after sleep. 

Rhus tox., is anxious, weak, restless, trem- 
bling, and it seems as if he had not slept. 

Aggravation from Pressure. 

Is found in the following twelve remedies: 

Ars,; Apis; Carbo v.; Hep.; Lach. ; Lyc. ; 
Merc; Nat, m.; Nit, ac; Nux; Sil. ; Staph. 

Your leaders will be : 

Apis, is sensitive to light touch, cannot bear 
the sheet to touch skin; every hair is painful; 
child stiffens when touched. 

Hepar, has dread of contact and extreme sen- 
sitiveness; scalp, eye, renal region, muscles of 



AGGRAVATION FROM PRESSURE. 1 33 

neck and external throat are aggravated from 
pressure. 

Lachesis, is worse from slightest touch; pres- 
sure produces black and blue marks ; pressure on 
larynx causes cough; throat and abdomen sen- 
sitive. (Sometimes firm pressure > when light 
touch is not tolerated.) 

Lycopodium, is sensitive to pressure in all soft 
parts; tight clothes and weight of clothes ag- 
gravate; liver especially sensitive. 

Silica, cannot tolerate pressure below floating 
ribs ; scalp and pit of stomach worse from pres- 
sure ; parts on which he lies go to sleep. Touch 
aggravates drawing in head, toothache, eye, liver, 
vagina, and pain in elbows. 

S'taphisagria, neuralgia of scalp, ovary and 
ulcers, are worse from pressure; touch aggra- 
vates drawing in head, toothache, ulcers and 
knee-joint. . 

Particulars under following are aggravated 
from pressure in second degree: 

Arsenicum, has scalp, stomach and abdominal 
symptoms aggravated from pressure. 

Carbo veg., the scalp, liver and perineum are 
aggravated. 

Mercurius, has aggravation of head, teeth, 



134 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

gums, Stomach, liver, bladder, spine, ulcers and 
bone pains. 

Natrum mur., must loosen clothing; touching 
hair causes it to fall out; nose, jaw, teeth, epi- 
gastrium and spine are aggravated. 

Nitric acid, condylomata bleed when touched; 
eruption, iritis, teeth, abdomen, anus and ulcer 
are worse from touch. 

Nux vom., tight clothing aggravates soreness 
over liver; touching with the hand brings on 
spasm; stomach, liver, scalp and abdomen are 
aggravated by pressure. 

Relief from Pressure. 

Is found in the following ten remedies: 

Apis; Bry. ; China; Coloc. ; Dros. ; Dulc; 
Graph.; Puls. ; Rhus; Sil. 

Your leaders for this amelioration will be : 
Bryonia, has general relief from pressure. 
China, has a drawing headache and pressure 
from middle of sternum, which is relieved ; pres- 
sure in region of liver relieved by bending body 
forward. 

Colocynth, is relieved by firm, hard, press- 
ure. 

Drosera, holds chest firmly when coughing or 
sneezing; pains in face, stomach, and stitches in 
chest relieved by pressure. 



THIRST. 13s 

Pulsatilla, hard rubbing relieves ; headache, 
left chest, pains in arm and throbbing in arteries, 
relieved by pressure. 

Silica, while many of the pains are worse from 
touch and pressure the headache is relieved by 
hard pressure or by tying the head tightly. 

The following particulars are relieved by 
pressure : 

Apis, has a headache relieved by pressure 
while all other symptoms are worse. 

Dulcamara, the pains in chest and stitches in 
back are relieved. 

Graphites, has a colic relieved by pressure, al- 
though the liver and abdomen are worse from 
tight clothing and pressure. 

Rhus tox., has a sciatica relieved by rubbing; 
pain in back, right nates, crest of left ilium, hip 
and legs are relieved. 

Thirst. 

The following twenty-one remedies have 
THIRST in the first or second degree : 

AcoN. ; Am.; Ars. ; BelL; Bry. ; Calc. c. ; 
Cham.; China; Dig.; Hyos,; Lach,; Merc; 
Nux v.; Nat. m. ; Nit, ac; Phos. ; Podo.; Rhus; 
SuLPH. ; SiL. ; Verat. 

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136 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

tions and to many remedies. If there is nothing 
to account for the thirst it is an important symp- 
tom, but if the patient is running a high tem- 
perature, or is working in the heat, or has a dis- 
ease like diabetes it would be a common thing 
for him to be thirsty, and under such circum- 
stances your symptom of thirst would have no 
place in your symptom picture. 

Your leaders for general and particular thirst 
symptoms will be: 

Aconite J has a burning, unquenchable thirst 
and desires bitter drinks, wine, brandy and beer. 

Arsenicum, wants cold water a little and often ; 
burning, unquenchable, thirst during sweat; de- 
sires acids, coffee, milk, wine, beer and brandy. 

Bryonia, has a great thirst with internal heat; 
wants large drinks at long intervals; warm 
drinks relieve. 

Calcarea carb., has a thirst which drinking does 
not reHeve, worse at night; desires cold drinks 
and acids. 

Chamomilla, has thirst for cold water and 
weakness and nausea after drinking coffee ; tooth- 
ache relieved by hot water; desires acids. 

China, has thirst before or after chill and dur- 
ing sweat; wants to drink little and often. 

Digitalis, has a continuous thirst with dry lips ; 
desires sour and bitter drinks. 



THIRST. 137 

Mercurius, has a moist tongue with burning 
thirst for cold drinks. 

Natrum mur., has a constant thirst without de- 
sire to drink, w^orse in the evening; longing for 
bitter, sour things and for milk, with aversion 
to coffee. 

Phosphorus^ wants very cold drinks; his 
stomach is relieved by them until they become 
warm, when they are vomited. Desire for re- 
freshing drinks, with aversion to boiled milk, 
coffee and tea. 

Rhus tox.j has a dry throat at night and wants 
only cold drinks. 

Silica, has want of appetite but excessive thirst ; 
desires cold drinks. 

Sulphur, drinks much and eats little; violent 
thirst for ale and beer. 

Veratrum alb., wants everything ice cold, little 
and often ; desires cold drinks. 

The following remedies will be of use when 
their particular thirst is present : 

Arnica, has a thirst for cold water without 
fever; constant desire for vinegar. 

Belladonna, great thirst, but drinking suffo- 
cates ; desires lemonade. 

Hyoscyamus, has a dread of water; unquench- 
able thirst with inability to swallow. 



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LachesiSy constant thirst, but is afraid to drink ; 
disgust for drink. 

Nux vom.^ has thirst during chill ; in morning ; 
desire for beer and brandy. 

Nitric acid, violent thirst in the morning. 

Podophyllum, great thirst for large quantities 
of cold water. Desires sour things. 

Aggravation From Eating and After Eating. 

Is found in the following twenty-seven remedies, 
either in the first or second degree : 

Ars. ; Ant. t.; Bell; Bry. ; Cham.; Calc. c. ; 
China; Carbo v.; Caust. ; Coloc. ; Graph.; 
Hyos.; Lach. ; Lyc. ; Nux v. ; Nat. m. ; Nit. ac; 
Phos. ; Phos. AC. ; Puls. ; Podo.; Rhus t.; 
SuLPH. ; Sep.; Sil. ; Thuj.; Zinc. 

Your leaders under this rubric will be: 

Arsenicum, feels better on an empty stomach ; 
bitter taste, nausea, painless stool's and chill are 
worse after eating. 

Bryonia, has many symptoms directly after 
dinner; weight and pressure in stomach after 
eating; complains from eating oysters, old 
sausage, old cheese, salads, cabbage and potatoes, 
fresh, green vegetables. Pertussis worse after 
eating. 

Calcarea carb., nausea and pressure in stomach 
after eating. Toothache, cough, heart symptoms, 
stool and heat worse from eating. 



AGGRAVATION FROM EATING AND AFTER. 1 39 

Causticum^ complaints from eating bread, fat 
and fresh meat. 

Colocynth^ has diarrhoea from least food or 
drink ; colic from potatoes ; griping and flatulency 
after eating; pains worse from eating or drink- 
ing. 

Lachesis, has vertigo; languor; drowsiness; 
dyspnoea ; flashes of heat ; pressing in stomach ; 
diarrhoea after eating or made worse by eating. 

Lycopodhim, fills up after a few mouthfuls ; 
drowsiness; pressure in stomach and liver; spit- 
ting up food after eating; bad eflfects from 
onions, oysters and rye bread. 

Nux vom.y is so sleepy after eating ; must loosen 
clothing after ; hypochondriacal mood, sour taste, 
pressure and pyrosis, after eating ; also cough is 
worse. 

Natrum mur., always feels better on empty 
stomach ; sweat on face, while eating ; nausea, 
palpitation and acidity after eating. 

Phosphorus, has pains which begin while eat- 
ing and last until he stops ; desires cold food and 
drink ; nausea, belching and fulness of stomach 
after eating. 

Pulsatilla, is useful in bad eflfects from pastry, 
rich foods, fats, onions and buckwheat. 

Sulphur^ drinks much and eats little; com- 



140 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

plaints aggravated from eating even a little; 
milk disagrees. 

Sepia, has pains aggravated immediately after 
eating; aggravation from bread, milk, fats and 
acids. 

Silica, has chilliness on back and icy cold feet 
after eating in evening; sour eructations, fulness 
in stomach; waterbrash and vomiting large 
amounts of water after eating. Aversion to 
mother's milk ; vomiting whenever taking it. 

Zincum, has heartburn from eating sugar; 
worse from wine and milk. 

Worse after eating is given in the second de- 
gree in the following remedies : 

Antimonium tart., has somewhat of relief of 
pressure in stomach after eating ; still eating sour 
food brings on attack of asthma. 

Belladonna, has pressure in stomach and 
putrid taste in mouth after eating. 

Chamomilla, heat and sweat of face during 
and after; vertigo, nausea and abdomen puffed 
up after eating. 

China, is drowsy, and uneasy after eating; 
headache and fufeess in stomach after. 

Carbo veg., dreads to eat because of pain; 
headache, acid mouth, heaviness, fulness, hot 
eructations, and burning in stomach, after eat- 



BURNING PAINS. I4I 

ing; feels as if abdomen would burst after meals; 
butter, fats, fish and pastry disagree. 

Graphites, has disgust for and nausea from 
sweet things; hot things disagree. 

Hyoscyamus, has hiccough with spasms and 
rumbling after eating. 

Nitric acid, has bitter taste; heavy weight in 
stomach, debility, heat and palpitation after eat- 
ing ; food causes acidity ; fat food causes nausea 
and acidity. 

Phosphoric acid, has pressing in stomach and 
bitter eructations after eating; diarrhoea from 
acids and sour foods. 

Podophyllum, has a craving appetite after eat- 
ing ; nausea and vomiting of food one hour after 
eating; diarrhoea and sour hot eructations after 
eating. 

Rhus fox., sleepiness, fulness in stomach and 
giddiness after eating. 

Thuja, for the bad effects of beer, fat, acid, 
sweets, tobacco, tea, wine and onions. 

The character of the pain is a symptom always 
brought out by the patient ; under 

Burning Pains. 

We find the following twenty-eight remedies: 
Agon. ; Am,; Ars. ; Apis; Bell. ; Bry. ; China; 
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142 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

Carbo v., Caust.; Coloc; Dulc; Dros,; Graph,; 
Ign.; Lack.; Lye; Merc; Nat. m.; Nit. ac. ; 
Nux v.; Phos. ; Phos. ac. ; Puls.; Rhus; 
SuLPH. ; Sep.; Sil. ; Zinc, 

Your leaders for this rubric will be : 

Aconite, where there is burning in internal 
parts; of the lips and tongue. 

Arsenicum, has burning pains relieved by heat; 
through the veins; head, eyes, nose, ulcers, 
mucous membrane, liver, ovaries, back, spine 
and joints burn. 

Belladonna, has burning in eyes, nose, stomach, 
throat, chest and ovary. 

Bryonia, the head, eyes, ribs, liver, abdomen, 
stool, urine and chest have burning. 

Graphites, has old scars that burn; spot on 
vertex, eyes, tongue, stomach, left hypochon- 
drium, through abdomen, vagina, soles of feet 
and hands, burn or have pains burning in char- 
acter. 

Mercurius, has general stinging and burning 
pains relieved by heat ; burning internally ; burn- 
ing after scratching. 

Natrum mur., has burning pains aggravated 
by heat of sun and of stove; relieved by washing 
in cold water and by open air; burning pains in 
vertex, eyes, ears, nose, throat, stomach, bowels, 
urethra, vagina, hands and feet. 



BURNING PAINS. 143 

Nitric acid, general burning, stinging and 
sticking pains. 

Nux vomica, has internal burning; burning 
pains in head; throat, stomach, abdomen, anus, 
back, bladder and chest. 

Phosphorus, has general burning pains in 
head, brain, chest and under sternum in par- 
ticular. 

Phosphoric acid, burning pains worse lower 
half of the body; general burning, liver, throat 
and chest in particular. 

Pulsatilla, has burning in eyes, throat, bladder, 
urethra, feet, chest and heart. 

Rhus tox., has burning, stinging and drawing 
pains worse on left side. 

Sulphur, has burning in general, with burning 
heat ; burning in skin of whole body and in parts 
on which he lies; burning pains in vertex, fore- 
head, palms, eyes, lids, nostrils, face, throat, of 
eczema, fauces, pharynx, stomach, abdomen, 
urethra, anus, in haemorrhoids, between scapulae, 
hands, balls and tips of fingers, knee, feet (par- 
ticularly at night), soles, corns and chilblains. 

Sepia, has internal burning with relief in open 
air; feet and palms burn. Hands hot and feet 
cold or vice versa. 

Silica, has general burning, stinging pains; 
burning in soles of feet and in ulcers. 



144 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

Zincum, has burning pains in back, whole 
length of spine, left arm), right wrist and ball of 
hand, left hip, soles, skin and ulcers. 

Those burning pains not covered by the above 
list will be found under: 

Arnica, has burning pains in brain, eyes, lips, 
throat, stomach, chest, heart and feet. 

Apis, has general burning, stinging pains. 

China, has burning of one hand while the other 
is icy cold ; burning of the skin, and in ulcers. 

Carho veg., general burning as from coals of 
fire, without thirst, and better from cold. 

Causticum, general burning pains; burning in 
spots as from ball of fire. 

Colocynth, has burning in right side of fore- 
head; eyelids, face, tongue, back, anus, urethra 
(during stool), right ovary and sciatic nerve. 

Dulcamara^ burning in forehead, epigastrium, 
anus, rectum, meatus, feet, gums and back. 

Drosera, burning deep in throat and center of 
chest. 

Ignatia, has burning redness of one ear and 
cheek ; burning heat in vagina and feet ; pain in 
head, eyes, epigastrium, stomach, urethra and 
heels. 

Lachesis, has burning, stinging pains in top 



^ CUTTING PAINS. 145 

of head, eyes, mouth, rectum, ovary, wrists, 
stomach, from hip to foot, throat, hands and 
soles. 

Lycopodium, has one foot burning hot, the 
other cold ; burning in blisters on tongue ; thumb 
and third finger of left hand; pain in stomach, 
rectum, lower limbs and ankles ; and of wounds. 

Gutting Pains. 

Are covered by the following seventeen remedies : 

Am,; Bell.; Calc. c. ; Chin.; Coloc. ; Dros. ; 
Hyos. ; Lyc. ; Merc; Nux v.; Nat. m.; Puls. ; 
SuLPH.; SiL. ; Staph.; Verat. ; Zinc. 

Your leaders will be found in : 

Belladonna^ where the cutting pains are in 
head (right side), face, stomach, abdomen, 
uterus and in the muscles. 

Calcarea carb., where there are cutting pains 
from within outward; pains in chest; stomach, 
back and liver. 

Colocynth, cutting as from knives in bowels; 
pain in forehead, left temple, eyes, ears, stomach, 
abdomen and chest. 

Drosera, cutting pains mostly in right side ; in 
calves of legs. 

Hyoscyamus, cutting in abdomen, chest and 
joints. 

Lycopodium, has cutting in bladder, rectum, 
abdomen, liver, chest, scalp and penis. 



146 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

Mercurius, has dull, cutting, pressive and 
stitching pains; cutting from stomach to geni- 
tals ; pains in eyes, abdomen and intestines. 

Nux vomica, has shooting, cutting pains about 
navel. 

Natrum mur,, has pains in head, abdomen, 
urethra, chest and back. 

Pulsatilla, cutting in bowels, throat, abdomen, 
limbs, liver, chest, back and in abscesses. 

Silica, cutting pains in nerves; in right lung, 
testes, breast, shoulders, knee, stomach, rectum 
and about navel. 

Sulphur, has cutting, burning pains in eyelids 
and urethra; cutting in abdomen, loins and 
sacrum, vesical region, chest, about heart and in 
great toe. 

Veratrum alb., cutting, griping colic; pain in 
left chest. 

Zincum, in small of back during menses ; cross 
umbilical region ; pain in right eye and ear, nose, 
rectum, anus, kidney and urethra. 

Cutting pains are also found in : 

Arnica, has cutting like knives in kidney ; pain 
in teeth, epigastrium and liver. 

China, has cutting pains which shoot through 
abdomen in all directions before the passage of 
flatus ; cutting in spleen as if it was hardened. 



SORE PAINS. 147 

Staphisagria, for injuries caused by sharp cut- 
ting instruments; pain over crural nerve; teeth 
and abdomen; pains in stitches after operations. 

Sore Pains. 

Are covered by the following twelve remedies: 

Arn.; Bell.; China; Dros. ; Hep.; Nux v.; 
Nat. m.; Phos.; Rhus t. ; Sulph.; Sil. ; Zinc. 

Your leaders will be found under: 

Arnica, for bad effects of bruises and sprains ; 
pain is sore as if bruised in head; brain, throat 
and stomach; general character of pains sore. 

Belladonna, has soreness and rawness; pains 
in eyelids, throat to ears, abdomen and back. 

China, has sore pains worse from light touch 
but relieved by hard pressure ; sore all over in the 
joints, bones, periosteum, as if they had been 
sprained. 

Drosera, soreness in temples and in skin of 
right temple ; bruised feeling in the larynx, back 
and ankle. 

Hepar, soreness in urethra, in genitals, 
scrotum, in folds between scrotum and thighs, 
chest and in all the limbs ; bruised feeling in an- 
terior muscles of thighs. 

Nux vomica, has soreness all over; great ten- 
derness of abdomen; soreness in liver, stomach, 
abdomen, across pubis, chest and shoulder- joint; 



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bruised sensation of brain, in small of back, neck 
of uterus, low down in abdomen ; in back and in 
limbs. 

Natrum mur,, soreness left side of nose; nos- 
trils; upper arm; epigastrium; chest; tarsal 
joints; liver; vulva; vagina; larynx and trachea 
and between the toes. 

Phosphorus^ bruised feeling in bones ; soreness 
and rawness; nose, mouth, chest, lungs, larynx 
and bronchi are sore. 

Rhus tox,, has soreness and stiffness; soreness 
in head, nostrils, tongue, abdomen, of navel, in 
muscles of abdomen, back, vagina, chest and left 
side of lumbar region; bruised feeling in head, 
throat and limbs. 

Sulphur, sore pain in left eye, in oral com- 
missures, and in whole abdomen ; bruised feeling 
and pain in abdomen, back, coccyx, left shoulder, 
left hip, thighs, in sciatic region and lower ex- 
tremities. 

Silica^ the eyeballs are stiff and sore; internal 
soreness ; sore pain in bones, chest, lungs and 
head. 

Zincum, has soreness in head, vertex, scalp and 
hair ; pterygium ; right upper lid ; outer canthus ; 
in nose, teeth, tongue, upper chest and left hypo- 
chondrium; rectum, anus, left kidney, urethra; 



THROBBING PAINS. 149 

as if beaten in the pectoral muscles ; chest ; outer 
muscles of thigh and in pimples. 

Throbbing Pains. 

Are covered by the following fourteen remedies : 

Agon.; Bell,; Bry.; Cham.; Calc. c. ; Ign.; 
Nit. ac; Phos. ; Puis.; Rhus t.; Sulph.; Sep.; 
SiL; Staph. 

Your leaders will be found under: 

Aconite J where there is throbbing in temples 
and left side of head. 

Calcarea carh., throbbing in ulcers ; pain in 
vertex and forehead, worse from motion. 

Phosphorus, throbbing forehead, temples, 
teeth, heart, extending to throat, back and neck. 

Pulsatilla, throbbing in brain, head, forehead, 
teeth, ear and soles of feet. 

Sepia, has throbbing in temple, forehead, 
cerebellum and teeth. 

When the above do not cover your case look 
to the following : 

Belladonna, has throbbing in carotids, in brain, 
teeth, stomach, ovary and breasts. While this 
remedy is given in routine practice for throbbing 
pains it does not have this symptom in as 
marked degree as the remedies given above. It 
will only cure throbbing pains when the rest of 
the symptoms agree. 



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Bryonia, has throbbing throughout the body; 
pain in vertex. 

Chamomilla, has a throbbing in one-half of 
the brain and in the back part of throat. 

Ignatia, has throbbing pain in right forehead, 
temples and occiput. 

Nitric acid, has throbbing pain in left side of 
head; ears, nape of neck, small of back, teeth 
and stomach. 

Rhus tox,, throbbing in pit of stomach; in 
temples and from jaws and teeth into temples; in 
left shoulder and forehead. 

Silica, has throbbing pain in forehead and up 
nito head ; in eyes, in teeth and in limbs ; sacral 
region ; in forehead and vertex with chilliness. 

Staphisagria, has throbbing in temples and 
from tooth to eye. 

Sulphur, throbbing pain in left side of occi- 
put; in hand, teeth, gums, rectum and anus. 

Cramping Pains. 

Are covered by the following ten remedies: 

BelL; Calc. c; Dig.; Nat. m.; Phos.; Phos. 
AC; PuLS. ; Sulph.; Staph.; Zinc. 
Your leaders will be : 

Phosphoric acid, where there are cramps in 
joints; upper arm; wrist; chest; stomach; dia- 
phragm and abdomen. 



CRAMPING PAINS. ISI 

Pulsatilla, cramping pain in stomach, through 
chest; in right leg from knee to groin; in legs, 
abdomen, and in pit of stomach. 

The following have crampy pains in second 
degree : 

Belladonna^ has cramps in jaws; the cramping 
pain in abdomen and stomach is relieved by lying 
at an angle of 45 degrees, and is aggravated by 
bending back; cramps in uterus and muscles are 
found under this remedy. 

Calcarea carh., has cramps in the hands and 
forearms, feet and legs, crampy pains in hypo- 
chondria and in stomach, with palpitation. 

Digitalis, has cramps in chest, abdomen and 
bladder. 

Natrum mur., has cramping pains in abdomen 
at menses ; crampy colic pains that resemble labor 
pains, aggravated after stool and relieved by 
passing flatus; pains in arms, hands, fingers, 
thumbs, legs, calves and -feet. 

Phosphorus, has crampy pains in testes, 
stomach, rectum, calves, between scapulae, and 
in left side of head. 

Staphisagria, has crampy pains in abdomen, 
right knee joint, and first joints of fingers. 

Sulphur, has crampy pains in stomach, chest; 



152 HOW TO USE THE REPERTORY. 

cramps in hip joints, middle finger, legs, thighs, 
calves, soles and toes. 

Zincunij has crampy pains in epigastrium, 
hepatic region, sides of abdomen and umbilical 
region; pit of throat, bladder, in chest to 
stomach, in heart and lungs; cramps in legs, 
calves, left foot and muscles. 

Bursting Pains. 

Are covered by the following nine remedies: 

Bell. ; Bry. ; Calc. c. ; Caust. ; Ign. ; Nux 
V. ; NiT. AC. ; Sep. ; Sil. 

Your leaders under this rubric will be: 

Belladonna, in hemicrania; bursting pains in 
right temple, above nose, in occiput; in brain 
towards temples; in eyeballs, over right eye, in 
chest, stomach, abdomen and hypochondria. 

Bryonia, has bursting pain in forehead, eye- 
balls, throat, stomach, right hypochondrium, 
above left eye and from within outward in head. 

Calcarea carb., has bursting headache and 
bursting sensation in the stomach. 

Causticum, has bursting pain in forehead, 
small of back, rectum, coccyx, stomach and ears. 

Ignatia, has bursting above root of nose, in 
spleen, stomach and rectum. 

Nux vom,, bursting pain in forehead and ver- 
tex, in eyes, stomach, liver towards chest and 
head, in bladder, anus and pit of stomach. 



BURSTING PAINS. 153 

Nitric acid, bursting pain in middle of brain, 
in forehead, eyes, throat, stomach, rectum and 
small of back. 

Sepia, bursting pain in forehead, liver, 
stomach and chest. Bursting sensation from 
ebullition of blood, which is worse at night. 

Silica, has bursting pain in forehead and occi- 
put, relieved by pressure; bursting pain in eyes, 
stomach and chest. 



INDEX. 

PAGE. 

Aggravation during afternoon 128 

Aggravation from cold 105 

Aggravation from lying 122 

Aggravation from motion 125 

Aggravation from pressure 132 

Aggravation after sleep 131 

Aggravation from warmth 109 

Analysis of forty remedies 85 

Arnica montana, A short picture of 86 

Burning pains 141 

Bursting pains 152 

Cases, Illustrations of repertory work 61 

Cold and aggravation from cold 105 

Common symptoms 48 

Constipation 80 

Cramping pains 151 

Cutting pains 145 

Dosage 55 

Fear 118 

Forty remedies 104 

Generals to particulars 40 

Grades of drug symptoms 54 

Grades of general symptoms 45 

Grades of particular" and common symptoms 48 

How to find the indicated remedy 27 

Index to Kent's Repertory 29 

Irritability 115 

Keynotes 53 

Lying, Aggravation from 122 



156 INDEX. 

PAGE. 

Miasms, Three 19 

Mistakes, Three 24 

Midnight, Aggravation after 129 

Motion, Aggravation from 125 

Pain, Burning 141 

Bursting 152 

Cramping 145 

Cutting 145 

Tlhrobbing 149 

Sore 147 

Particular symptoms 48 

Parallels, Three 20 

Precautions, Three 16 

Pressure, Aggravation from 132 

Pressure, Relief from 134 

Restlessness 112 

Relief from pressure 134 

Repetition of dose 55 

Requirements^ Three 21 

Sleep, aggravation after 131 

Sore pains 147 

Suggestions for study of the analysis loi 

Tearfulness 121 

Thirst ; 135 

Throbbing pains 149 

Warmth and aggravation from warmth 109 



